Re: Rant on partial understandings (was: Spoken French, coins)

Matthew Kehrt scripsit:

> I've heard that this is the reason that modern English has no cases: the
> Anglo-Saxons and the Norse ivaders eventually settled on a lowest common
> denominator language that became English as we know it.  So English is
> essential a creole and was even before 1066.  I've heard.
It's too extreme to call ME a creole.  It did undergo substantial grammatical
simplification, though.

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