The changes in language will continue forever, but no one knows sure 1. ______ who does the changing. One possibility is that children are responsible. A professor of linguistic at the University of Hawaii, explores this in one of his 2. ______ recent books. Sometimes around 1880, a language catastrophe occurred in 3. ______ Hawaii when thousands of emigrant workers were brought to the islands to 4. ______ work for the new sugar industry. These people speaking different languages were unable to communicate with each other or with the native Hawaiians or the dominant English-speaking owners of the plantations. So they first spoke in Pidgin English-- the sort of thing such mixed language populations have 5. ______ always done. A pidgin is not real]y a language at all. It is more like a set of verbal signals used to name objects and without the grammatical rules needed for expressing thoughts and ideas. And then, within a single generation, the 6. ______ whole mass of mixed people began speaking a totally new tongue: Hawaiian 7. ______ Creole. The new speech was contained ready-made words borrowed from all 8. ______ the original tongues, but beared little or no resemblance to the predecessors in 9. ______ the rules used for stringing the words together. Although generally regarded as 10. _____ primitive language, Hawaiian Creole had a highly sophisticated grammar.