Re: Vampire dialogue again

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.

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