Re: LANGUAGE LAWS

David G. Durand wrote:
> Twin languages, while often consigned to the dustbin of lanauge pathology,
> are also very interesting because they are also "spontaneously generated"
> linguistic structures. [Twin languages are private langauges occasionally
> evolved by identical twins (or siblings), especially if they are isolated
> from wide social contact by parental abuse or handicap.]
It's my impression that twin languages are almost always created by
identical twins, it's just a matter of how long it lasts.  Also, I was
under the impression that those were simply alterations (frequently
phonetic) of their parents' language.  I'd have to ask my uncle if he
remembers anything of his.  He and my dad (who's deceased) were
identical twins and had just such a twin-language.

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