-----Original Message----- From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan at ccil.org] > The point is that these examples are plain English with unusual > vocabulary, not really different from dense slang or the technical > talk of pilots, doctors, or computer programmers. Well, that's debatable. When English-speaking doctor uses a term like "hematoma" they would probably agree that these are English words albeit part of a specialized domain of vocabulary. (It's common for a language to have specialized domains of vocabulary that only certain members of the community learn.) But when a "Yinglish" speaker uses a word like "pshat", nobody would suggest that that's an English term -- I reject your suggestion that this is just plain English with specialized English vocabulary as these are clearly not English and not even borrowings into English (they are not spoken with English phonology). At that point, I believe your options (in terms of the categories that sociolinguists use) are limited to: - you deem this to be an instance of code switching: moving back and forth between two languages (I often hear devs that are mother-tongue speakers of some other language do this, switch to English for certain technical terms). - ye deem this to be a distinct language Peter Constable _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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