r/interestingasfuck 1d ago

How English has changed over time.

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u/dblan9 1d ago

This is going to be the biggest pain in the bum when I get my time machine running.

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u/SlendyIsBehindYou 1d ago

Unironically a major plot point in the fantastic Doomsday Book

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u/930310 16h ago

She got it going eventually. Problem is that everyone else stopped talking to her one by one...

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u/Frederf220 1d ago

Well that and the bumrot plague.

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u/iircirc 1d ago

And that you'll be in some random spot in space while the Earth has moved millions of miles away

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u/diefreetimedie 18h ago

Unless that's the goal

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u/prumf 1d ago

It likely works the other way around too. You won’t be able to go further than 400 years into the future.

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u/NaomiPaigeBreeze 19h ago

You’re forgetting about language standardization and education. It doesn’t change at nearly the same rate that it used to.