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To: C19fan

Isn’t English itself a pidgin?


2 posted on 09/30/2016 9:48:48 AM PDT by sagar
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To: sagar

Linguists have also predicted that the future direction of English will be determined in India, simply by the sheer number of speakers.

Soon we will all be doing the needful.


19 posted on 09/30/2016 9:57:15 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: sagar

No. Pidgins have limited vocabulary and are for communication between people who do not know each other’s language. It’s not a creole or mixed language either, in spite of the Middle English Creole Hypothesis.


24 posted on 09/30/2016 10:00:06 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: sagar

No, English is a particularly cosmopolitan language because of its many influences, but it is a fully distinct and functional language, not a pidgin.


40 posted on 09/30/2016 10:07:53 AM PDT by Boogieman
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