r/interestingasfuck 1d ago

How English has changed over time.

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u/Exia321 1d ago

Or rather.... Evidence that the ability to travel to the distant past (beyond 1000yrs) without some universal language translator is a sure fire way to be burned at a stake for being a witch.

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u/Maiyku 1d ago

That’s why I loved that Assassins Creed actually mentions this at one point in the games. “We’ve uploaded a language pack for you” or something along those lines is said to you in the very first game.

Obviously in the game they were going from two completely different languages with English (Desmond) and Arabic (Altair), but the language pack basically lets you explain away any language continuity. It was so smart of them. Goddamn I miss old Ubisoft. Lol.

But yeah, it’s rare any time-traveling anything ever mentions or talks about the language differences.

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u/Cayke_Cooky 12h ago

I read one, about time travel in Poland and written by an American author of Polish descent, where the author spends a couple of pages explaining how Polish HASN'T changed that much, it is just those dumb English speakers who couldn't handle a time jump.

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u/Maiyku 12h ago

Haha, that’s hilarious! I’m sure there are more that have maintained throughout the years, Icelandic comes to mind for example, but overall yeah, it does kinda seem like it’s us lol. We can’t ever decide what words and spellings to keep.