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From: hinsenk@cyclone.ERE.UMontreal.CA (Hinsen Konrad)
Subject: Re: Is Esperanto a Creole?
In-Reply-To: dhanna@mail2.sas.upenn.edu's message of 27 Apr 1995 07:04:38 GMT
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In article <3nnfm6$ls7@netnews.upenn.edu> dhanna@mail2.sas.upenn.edu (David B Hanna) writes:

   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?

That is purely a matter of definition. Obviously the standard definitions
of "pidgin" and "creole" were not meant to apply to Esperanto.

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