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Re: Vampire dialogue again

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Friday, January 26, 2001, 23:09
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. -- Cenedl heb iaith, cenedl heb galon A nation without a language is a nation without a heart - Welsh proverb ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42