Comments on: Gaudi-nation http://www.hablasalyssa.com/wordpress/2008/04/16/gaudi-nation/ A lesson in speaking Alyssa Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:39:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Laurel http://www.hablasalyssa.com/wordpress/2008/04/16/gaudi-nation/#comment-141 Laurel Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:01:30 +0000 http://www.hablasalyssa.com/wordpress/2008/04/16/gaudi-nation/#comment-141 hey, I'm glad you like Barcelona, I did too! I have to butt in as the resident linguist and point out that Catalan isn't a "mix of French and Spanish" but rather its own separate language -- not any sort of hybrid. It's a Romance language, so it's descended from Latin just like French and Spanish, and bears many similarities to them, but calling it a "mix" is inaccurate. learn more about Catalan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language and to learn more about pidgins and creoles, true "mixed" languages that originate due to contact between speakers of two or more distinct languages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_language hey, I’m glad you like Barcelona, I did too! I have to butt in as the resident linguist and point out that Catalan isn’t a “mix of French and Spanish” but rather its own separate language — not any sort of hybrid. It’s a Romance language, so it’s descended from Latin just like French and Spanish, and bears many similarities to them, but calling it a “mix” is inaccurate.

learn more about Catalan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language

and to learn more about pidgins and creoles, true “mixed” languages that originate due to contact between speakers of two or more distinct languages:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_language

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