Re: TERMINOLOGY: Re: another new language to check out

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>> En réponse à Chris Bates :
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>>> Is it still a pidgin? I've been waiting for it to creolize before I try
>>> learning it. :( Only problem is, you need a community who actually use
>>> the language regularly for that to happen....
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>> In my experience, it has never been a pidgin (but that's not a
>> problem, quite a few creoles around here have had no pidgin state).
>> Creole is not quite the right word, but fits if you're not too strict
>> about its definition.
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>> And the community has used it enough for entire books' worth of
>> Esperantisms (expressions that are peculiar to Esperanto), play on
>> words untranslatable in other languages, turns of phrases that
>> Zamenhof didn't expect or use but are allowed and even encouraged by
>> the rules of the language, etc... to appear (they make the language a
>> bit more difficult to learn, but in an unbiased way, since those
>> specificities are not Euro-centric). My short stay within the
>> Esperantist community has convinced me that while the language will
>> never become the world's IAL, it will carry on being used by an
>> international community that may not grow much, but will not shrink
>> either.
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Surely, a Creole is a Pidgin that is spoken as a firstl language by some
people...

Is Esperanto?

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> http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
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> You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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