Mark A Mandel wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Philip Hart wrote: > > #Mark is responsible for the problems in the other living languages. > > And those not yet born, such as Klingon. As long as this has gotten onto languages - a question I've been wondering about. Some of the Dragaeran Houses have different languages than standard Dragaeran (like Adrilankha means something in Orca, IIRC). So, assuming Dragaeran and human language acquisition skills are fairly similar, can you extrapolate off that? Like, could it mean the humans the Jenoine made Dragaerans from came >from a lot of different cultures, and maybe the Jenoine, being aliens, were trying to figure out which genes coded for the various traits the different cultural groups are stereotypically supposed to have? (This would assume that the animal genes are just easy gene trackers, rather than determinative, of course). Or would it make more sense to assume that the original Dragaerans all spoke one language, but there was a long period between the original Houses getting out of the labs and the formation of Kieron's empire, so the languages mutated so that each House spoke a language that didn't obviously resemble each others? In this case - how many generations would you need before that would happen? Or could it just mean that some of the Houses wanted a secret language they could communicate in amongst themselves, and developed one, while others didn't care? Would the RL use of Klingon, frex, show that this is certainly a good possibility, or does Klingon use show more that given a big enough population, 1% of all people can be a fairly large percentage, but a small group isn't likely to do anything like that? Karen