The topic was getting way off track anyway. And, yes, as I (and others) said before, American English does not display hardly any characteristics known to creole languages.
American English a creole language?
"The topic was getting way off track anyway.
” EVERY TOPIC DOES GET WAY OFF TRACK…but not accidentally deleted….
“I think it has something to do with “American inferiority complex”
” EVERY TOPIC DOES GET WAY OFF TRACK…but not accidentally deleted….
“I think it has something to do with “American inferiority complex”
"I'm still getting used to the new software"
New software....it looks like the same old cr@p just duplicated on "languages"
New software....it looks like the same old cr@p just duplicated on "languages"
Um, It's not AMERICAN english that's a Creole, it's English in General. It's not a Romance language, it's a Germanic one, which happens to have had an encounter with French, which is a Romance language. It also had heavy Danish Influences. It's simplified Grammar and multiple language origins kind of make it a Creole language, at least by how we normally define one.
I'd argue that Americans do have an "inferiority complex." I don't think many would argue that Americans, as a linguistic group, feel their language is superior or even equal to that in England... Americans tend to think that English English is older, more sophisticated, etc. (even though we all KNOW it's not) :-)
>>Um, It's not AMERICAN english that's a Creole, it's English in General. It's not a Romance language, it's a Germanic one, which happens to have had an encounter with French, which is a Romance language. It also had heavy Danish Influences. It's simplified Grammar and multiple language origins kind of make it a Creole language, at least by how we normally define one.<<
Umm... no. There are languages with far more outside influence than English which are clearly not creoles, such as Japanese (which has been under far more influence from Middle Chinese than English has been under from any outside language), for starters. Furthermore, English has far more complex morphology than any creole, and has more complex morphology than a good few non-creole languages such a Sinitic languages. Last but not least, English shows a clear unbroken line of descent from Proto-Germanic through Old English through New English, whereas if English today were a creole no such unbroken line of descent should exist.
Umm... no. There are languages with far more outside influence than English which are clearly not creoles, such as Japanese (which has been under far more influence from Middle Chinese than English has been under from any outside language), for starters. Furthermore, English has far more complex morphology than any creole, and has more complex morphology than a good few non-creole languages such a Sinitic languages. Last but not least, English shows a clear unbroken line of descent from Proto-Germanic through Old English through New English, whereas if English today were a creole no such unbroken line of descent should exist.