[…] the practical efficiency of pidginized varieties might be the result of three correlative properties: their simplicity, or more exactly their narrow adaptation to the referential function; their neutrality, that is to say, the fact that their use does not habitually evoke any categorization or any value judgment; and finally, their conformity to what might turn out to be the elementary structures of human language.
- Manessy (1977), a pag.149