Re: Hobbits, Austronesians, and Creoles

> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001984.html
>
> If this is even a vague approximation to the truth, it's going to
> set the cat among the pigeons for sure.   What do Austronesianists
> think?
I'm not an Austronesianist, but I am a fan of pidgins and creoles.

I believe it's an interesting bit of conjecture with several glosses and not
many facts, as is common of many things now found on the Internet: I'm torn
between the pleasure of being able to encounter things like this thanks to
the internet, yet concerned how this may be taken as fact by an uncritical
public.

I also believe that it's an interesting thread for another historized
fantasy novel like Jane Yolen's _The Pictish Child_.