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.
I had the theory pop up in my head a second ago, maybe there are a select
few vampires who, when they bite, send on the vimpire lineage through black
magic ( while listening to black metal ^_^ ).

Just a thought...
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