Was Subject: Re: Some observations on Fenario vs. the Easterner homeland I'll have a more detailed response on the subject of Fenario vs Easterners later (already spent too much bandwidth and time on it), but wanted to ask a related question of the language pros. In Dragaera, we have people who live for 3,000 years. It's not clear at what age a typical Dragaeran has children, but it looks like a number of them get married by 500 or so. That means a 3,000-year-old is going to be alive and speaking the language across five or six generations of descendants. With that kind of life span, what would it do towards keeping the language stable? This laymans guess is that the Dragaeran language would change very slowly, if at all. Slowly enough that 200,000-year-old texts might be readable with no more difficulty than you or I have with Shakespeare. -- `The skills needed for dealing with a computer are not simply irrelevant to those needed for dealing with people; they are actually a negative. You cannot reboot, reinstall, or power cycle a human being no matter how desperately they need it.' -- me, in forthcoming article