¹ I should disclose for the reader that I submitted a contribution on this issue for this volume but the editors rejected it precisely because I argued against the abusive reference to ‘creolization’ (a term that I also find less informative than ‘the emergence of creoles’, which are structurally diverse). I also object to ‘cultural pidginization’, because the reader will discover that no simplification of any culture or anything comparable to ‘broken language’, traditionally associated with pidgins, is the case in this book. According to the editors, my contribution ‘does not really fit the overall theme and theoretical approach of the book we have in mind’ (16 July 2015), which is evident.