Re: Are "semi-creoles" widespread?

Darkstar <darkstar100@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Pidgination-creolization could probably be more common than previously
believed.

What again was your private definition of those terms?

6. French
Further loss of endings in spoken speech as compared to late Vulgar
Latin. Spoken grammar largely analytical. Germanic borrowings and
Germanic phonology, probably due to Frankish and Norman influence.

French has Germanic phonology? A most astonishing claim. Tell us
more.

Unstressed vowels reduced, consonant groups symplified.

What's an unstressed vowel in French?

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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