On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Mark A. Mandel wrote: (It's about the amount of skew you'd get in a few > hundred years at most -- languages become totally unrecognizable within a > few thousand, let alone 200,000 -- but that's a longstanding question > about the world of Dragaera, so let it pass.) Eternal entities like gods, and long-lived authority figures like priestesses, plus the occasional magical talking horse, seem like a simple explanation for lack of drift to me. Incidentally, how stable have Hebrew and Arabic (and other languages strongly tied to religious texts) been?