To: RetiredArmy
More likely we'll wind up with a sort of 'pidgin'; a combination of words from English, Spanish, Vietnamese (Now that's irony for you) and Korean that is all of these and none of them at the same time. A lot like the street language spoken in some less visited parts of Hawaii (The Hawaiin version of pidgin is a combination of English, Hawaiian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese and maybe a little Korean). It will happen gradually. No one will even notice.
To: Chuckster
More likely we'll wind up with a sort of 'pidgin'; a combination of words from English, Spanish, Vietnamese (Now that's irony for you) and Korean that is all of these and none of them at the same time. A lot like the street language spoken in some less visited parts of Hawaii (The Hawaiin version of pidgin is a combination of English, Hawaiian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese and maybe a little Korean). It will happen gradually. No one will even notice. You mean like how Latin, Greek, Gaelic, Norman French and the Germanic languages got mixed up to become English? Nothing new here. It's the natural evolution of language.
92 posted on
08/16/2002 11:21:39 AM PDT by
Melas
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