Linguist John McWhorter agrees thet all langueges are complex, but questions whether or not they are all equally complex. As McWhorter describes, when languages came into contact over the years, a large number of speakers are forced to learn a new language quickly, and this come up with a simplified version, a pidgin. When this ultimately turns into a "real" language, a creole, the result is still simpler and less complex than a "non-interrupted" language that has been around for a long time. McWhorter makes the case that this kind of simplification happens in degress, and criticizes linguists who are reluctant to say that, for example, English is simply simpler than Spanish for socio-historical reasons.