> It's not hard to imagine that a language being learned by a lot of adults ends up having those new language speakers shave off some of the harder bits of the

> It's not hard to imagine that a language being learned by a lot of adults ends up having those new language speakers shave off some of the harder bits of the language, and those adults then passing on this shaved-off language to their kids (who are of course unaware that they're learning a simpler language). When adults with different languages meet in a place where there isn't a language to conform to or that's impossible to happen, their native languages merge in a very simple form: dictionary and simple grammatical rules. That's called a pidgin [1]. Then those adults get children and those children learn the pidgin, the "simpler language", and add more complex grammatical rules, because they are useful, because they make the language sound better, because of fashion, whatever. That's called a creole [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_language