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Re: R: Re: English oddities

From:Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 12, 2000, 17:58
> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:50:05 -0700 > From: J Matthew Pearson <pearson@...>
> One could almost think of English as being a creole, with a Germanic > substrate and a French/Classical superstrate.
How does having a lexical sub- or superstratum stratum make a language into a creole? Or is there a sense of creole where it means any mixed language at all? Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)