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Originally Posted by malloyd
Incidentally Tredroyan patois having some intelligibility with both Anglish and Arabic is probably equally nonsensical - pidgins don't work like that. "Hybrid" languages are a popular delusion among English speakers because whatever weird thing happened between Old English and Norman French is sort of similar, and English speakers assume its a normal process that could go just a little further to allow mutual comprehension. It's not, it's a weird outlier with almost no parallels. English is somewhat strange in a lot of ways really, and it gives Americans odd ideas of what languages and language change are like, which the relative scarcity of second language fluency doesn't help.
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