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<blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 9607879" data-attributes="member: 18182">Vampires are immortal beings who not only began their existence as mortals, but exist within mortal society. Human language changes because humans, not because vampires. If the vampires in your setting have a &quot;secret vampire language&quot;, I would assume it would be more static than the mortal languages.Your video is fun, because it could showcase how different immortal vampires interact with the changes in mortal society . . . not just with language. Do they adapt with the changing times, or remain static, or mish-mash it all together?Elves on the other hand, are immortal beings who exist within a culture of immortal beings. Well Tolkien elves anyways. D&amp;D elves aren't immortal, but are very long-lived. I would assume elvish language in a typical D&amp;D setting (where elves can live for hundreds of years) would certainly change and drift over time, but at a much slower rate than the language of the short-lived peoples like humans. It makes sense to me that elvish would have less language drift over time, and less pronounced dialect changes over large regions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dire Bare, post: 9607879, member: 18182"] Vampires are immortal beings who not only began their existence as mortals, but exist within mortal society. Human language changes because humans, not because vampires. If the vampires in your setting have a "secret vampire language", I would assume it would be more static than the mortal languages. Your video is fun, because it could showcase how different immortal vampires interact with the changes in mortal society . . . not just with language. Do they adapt with the changing times, or remain static, or mish-mash it all together? Elves on the other hand, are immortal beings who exist within a culture of immortal beings. Well Tolkien elves anyways. D&D elves aren't immortal, but are very long-lived. I would assume elvish language in a typical D&D setting (where elves can live for hundreds of years) would certainly change and drift over time, but at a much slower rate than the language of the short-lived peoples like humans. It makes sense to me that elvish would have less language drift over time, and less pronounced dialect changes over large regions. [/QUOTE]

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