Re: New Lang, but Just For Fun

daniel andreasson wrote:
> This means that you can't derive any constructions from
> *any* language. The pidgin is created from scratch.
Depends.  Frequently people import the usages of their own language onto
the pidgin.  Morphologically, of course, there'd be little or no direct
derivation.  For instance, in an article about Hawaiian Pidgin English,
I saw the sentence "Me coffee buy, me check make" spoken by a man whose
native language was Japanese.  This could mean "I bought coffee and made
out a check" [me being subject, coffee and check being objects], or, as
it actually meant in the original context, "He bought my coffee, he made
out a check to me"

> Impoverished means that the lang's expressiveness
> diminishes. For instance the lexicon often only consists
> of a couple of hundred words.
Depends on how long the pidgin is used.  If it's in use for many years,
it will grow in complexity.

> So, from what I can tell, I don't think that there
> would remain any declinations at all in Raatingo.
Quite unlikely as well, but if there was long enough contact with Latin,
some of the declensions might be re-introduced.  But if there was that
much contact, the phonology would almost surely not remain so
simplified.

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