Re: Easy and Interesting Languages -- Website

Andreas Johansson said:
> Quoting "Mark P. Line" <mark@...>:
>
>>
>> I therefore believe that anybody who wants to claim that Cham has never
>> undergone creolization should be prepared to show evidence, and that the
>> rest of us have no particular reason to believe it until she does.
>
> I would agree if I believed that exactly 50% of all languages have
> undergone
> creolization at some point in their development, and 50% not.

So instead, you believe that exactly N% of all languages have undergone
creolization at some point in their development, and 100-N% not, and that
it therefore makes sense to bias your going-in assumption based on whether
N is greater or less than 50?

Where did you come up with the value of N, and what is it?


-- Mark

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