Starshadw at aol.com writes: What I wonder is would having a longer life span make it more or less likely for a language to change? I can see it both ways - that since they live longer, the language would be less likely to change because there are the elder Dragaerans who help keep it from changing. But then again, I can see the opposite, with the longer life spand allowing for experimentation with language. Think of all the words that kids use that make you stop and say, "What?" I think it is possible that language would drift just as much in Dragaera as it does here; long lives would just mean that people are still around to remember when "bad" meant "bad", "good", then "bad" again. rone -- {Reagan's} presidency always reminded me of a remark made by a woman to Heywood Broun following Secretariat's victory in the Triple Crown. After the trauma of Vietnam and Watergate, she said, Secretariat had "restored her faith in humanity." I like to think Reagan was the Secretariat of the eighties. - Garry Trudeau