English as a creole

[Anthony Appleyard]

  "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott at stratos.net> wrote about inversion.

People who could write might well have learned to write with inversions as a
literary practice, so much by years of early schoolroom indoctrination that
they reproduced it in all their writing same as they learned non-phonetic
English spellings such as "trouble" instead of "trubble". A similar example is
the recent (and to me annoying) spread from officialese to wide common spoken
usage of "on an X basis" instead of the good old adverb-forming suffix "X-ly".