In which scenario would you last longer before being outed as a time traveller?
- Being dropped 500 years ago into your ancestors' community.
- 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.
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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.
Hell, I have trouble understanding young people right now. I'm not trying to dunk on them, I'm just old.
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Why are you sour?
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In the early 2000s the Globe in London did productions of Shakespeare in the original pronunciation.
Here is how the opening of Romeo and Juliet would have sounded.
That sort of reminds me of West Country. Yarp.
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Yes, there is a definite similarity there.
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.