1. Being dropped 500 years ago into your ancestors’ community.
  2. Being dropped 500 years into the future in your community.

You have a day to source some clothing appropriate to the time period. Unfortunately, that’s not enough time to learn a dialect.

  • @[email protected]OP
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    They will also likely speak way different in 500 years than we do now. We have an idea what 1523 English sounded like. 2523 is uncharted territory.

    • Boozilla
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      121 year ago

      Hell, I have trouble understanding young people right now. I’m not trying to dunk on them, I’m just old.

      • @OneStepAhead
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        Pretty neat. I think I caught about half of that. I’m now wondering what percentage of that was more difficult to understand than an average persons speech. I don’t generally talk in iambic pentameter or what-have-you. The flow of the words for something like this is likely making it harder to understand than “regular talk”

    • livus
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      I agree. Also, if the climate catastrophe unfolds as predicted, there will be a return to intense regionalization of dialects because people will live in smaller groups and have less contact with outsiders.