Creole languages (was Who is Eddy Peters?)

[Benjamin Barrett]

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> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On
> Behalf Of James A. Landau

>     French has a higher hurdle.  If a noun, a consensus has to be
> reached on
> whether it is masculine or feminine.  If a verb, then does it
> belong to the
> 1st, 2nd, or 3rd conjugation?
>     (Is it my imagination, or does Franglais have a rule that all
> new nouns
> belong to the masculine gender?)

Just as a point of clarification, I thought I was told in my beginning
French class that in general new nouns are masculine and new verbs get set
to a default conjugation (I don't remember which). I remember being told it
was true for French, with no qualification as Franglais.

Benjamin Barrett
gogaku at ix.netcom.com