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From: stevemac@bud.indirect.com (Tennessee Ernie Fnord)
Subject: Is Esperanto a Creole?
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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 03:01:06 GMT
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According to the ancient Gondwanalander legend,
  dhanna@mail2.sas.upenn.edu (David B Hanna) once said...

>If two Esperantists who learned E-o as their second language got married 
>and spoke E-o in their homes and had children, would their 
>Esperanto-speaking children be speaking a Creole, since it is their 
>native language and the E-o is not really the native language of their 
>parents?

  No, because children create a creole when they learn the pidgin from 
their parents, but add a grammar to it.  In the case of Esperanto, the 
children learn the =same= Esperanto that their parents speak, grammar and 
all.  Just as it's not true that English is a creole because my mother 
learned it from her parents, whose first language was Swedish.

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