Hybrid language (Japanese)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx_b8YNlZBU If you search through the Language Log archives, you will find a tremendous number of posts listed under creoles, pidgins, "mixed" and hybrid languages and scripts, to an extent that the categories themselves begin to blur.  This leads me to ponder what these fuzzy linguistic boundaries tell us about the nature of language, its […]