Re: Vampire dialogue again

Nik Taylor wrote:

> And Rosta wrote:
> > I haven't seen the film, but if the scenario is the usual one, in
> > which people bitten by vampires become vampires, and if the
> > vampire language is one that your average vampire speaks,
> > then unless becoming a vampire involves a radical restructuring
> > of neural architecture, you'd expect the language to show
> > extreme pidginization (because it's spoken entirely by L2
> > speakers) along with many influences from L1s. I don't know
> > how plausible your sketch would be, in the light of that, but
> > suppletions such as _tat/ochach_ seem unlikely.
>
> IIRC, most vampires were born as vampires, seeing humans not as
> "potential vampires", but as sort of "game animals".  Altho I guess it
> was also possible to become a vampire (since Snipes' character was
> half-vampire thru his mother being bitten by a Vampire while pregnant
> with him).  Certainly the "bitten by a vampire, become a vampire"
> scenario is illogical - if that were so, then the number of vampires
> would increase exponentially (since everyone who becomes a vampire must
> then drink the blood of others), until the entire world consisted of
> nothing but vampires who would then starve to death.
I think Nik has it right.  In the first movie, Deacon Frost is looked down
upon by the vampire elders not only because he transgressed the vampire
code, but because his blood was "impure" (i.e., because he had been
transformed into a vampire in later life rather than born a vampire).

Matt.