Dwight,

You're right about the mixture of languages thing. Linguists refer to the mixture any languages to create a new one as creole. I'm also sure that you already know that creole was once used to describe all things "home grown" so to speak. I know at least at one time, in the early days of our nation, it was used to refer to anything made here. In Louisiana people began to identify with the term to distinguish themselves from other cultural groups. So to quote the Good Father Daigle, "all Cajuns are Creole, but not all Creoles are Cajun."

Did we really have to resort to Venn diagrams?