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.