Objection, MMario - even an opinion should be founded upon evidence.

Objection, Steve: As I have read (I've forgotten where) a creole language originates from a pidgin, i.e. a reduced, language. Having learned English language (Her Majesty's Own) for some years at school and practising it abroad more or less often I do not have the impression of a reduced language. It is structured like many other Germanic languages, inserted some Romanic forms (e.g. genitive) and a vast addition of Romanic words, mostly the polysyllables . (I still remember a piece of Ivanhoe, where good old Alderman Ox becomes Beef when entering a Norman court.) Fortunately during its history English dropped a lot of superfluous morphology on its way to an analytic structure, which makes it so easy to learn. In German the process is much slower.

Never forget that languages develop like people and are subject to changes. They must not be degradations, only a change of conventions. And considering the different levels of speech you can't compare apples with pears.

And now an observation which has proved utterly wrong in my opinion:
The average American vocabulary contains 80 words of which 50% may easily be substituted by the word f***. Reading a lot of threads here convinced me that it isn't true.

Wilfried