Re: Bigbabytalk -a primitive language for AI

AcadonBot wrote:
> I don't think the specialists consider that English was ever a pidgin.
Indeed not.  In fact, French had little grammatical influence on
English.  Old Norse, now, did have a fairly significant influence, such
as the usage of the verbal -s, and the 3rd person plural pronouns!  I've
also read of a theory that the Old Norse influence was responsible for
the loss of V2 order, but I can't remember the reasoning.  But even
there, there wasn't pidginization.  There was never any breaking of
English grammar, merely a continuous evolution, many of the changes
motivated by phonetic changes which obliterated former distinctions.

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