FYI, one of the papers in "The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design" talked about the evolution of languages (pidgins/creoles). It's short, and You can read i

FYI, one of the papers in "The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design" talked about the evolution of languages (pidgins/creoles). It's short, and You can read it here: https://archive.org/details/artofhumancomput00laur/page/10/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/artofhumancomput00laur/page/10/m... The article is "Interface and the Evolution of Pidgins" by Thomas Erickson, Apple ATG. I'm sure there are bigger texts about it now. In fact, there are likely multiple books if you search. But this is an interesting article from the old days.