En réponse à John Cowan :
>It's common enough. It's far easier for Portuguese-speakers to understand
>Spanish than vice versa.
Still, it doesn't say how dialectologists handle those cases :))) .
>As for Afrikaans and Dutch, here's two from the Essentialist Explanations:
>
>Afrikaans is essentially Dutch baby talk.
> --John Cowan
>
>Conversely, Dutch is essentially Afrikaans as spoken by a corpse.
> --John Cowan
LOL. I think it's about right, given the right viewpoint ;)))) .
Christophe Grandsire.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.