I remember a while back having a detailed late-night conversation with some friends about how we'd do if we got teleported back to medieval times. It's a really fun thought experiment, and this...
I remember a while back having a detailed late-night conversation with some friends about how we'd do if we got teleported back to medieval times. It's a really fun thought experiment, and this video is a really fascinating dive into a lot of common misconceptions about the era from that lens.
This is something I definitely need because anytime I think about what I'd do if I suddenly got teleported to the past, it's naturally to medieval England. I've always figured I could probably...
This is something I definitely need because anytime I think about what I'd do if I suddenly got teleported to the past, it's naturally to medieval England. I've always figured I could probably invent penicillin.
Ha, for me it’s always* Rome or Greece. Haven’t yet contemplated the language implications of that, though… *Every half-or-so year that this thought comes up :]
naturally to medieval England
Ha, for me it’s always* Rome or Greece. Haven’t yet contemplated the language implications of that, though…
*Every half-or-so year that this thought comes up :]
Realistically the language implications will be there even if you go to medieval England, as even late Middle English would be difficult for a modern English speaker to understand spoken unless...
Realistically the language implications will be there even if you go to medieval England, as even late Middle English would be difficult for a modern English speaker to understand spoken unless they were experienced with Middle English from studying literature from that period (and even for a modern scholar, effective two-way communication would pose considerable difficulty). And if you go earlier in the medieval period, it only gets worse on that front.
Hey, if you ever do it and it's it's post-"Alexander the Great" Greece and/or the Eastern Roman Empire, just hit me up before you time-travel and you won't have a problem with the language ;) As a...
Haven’t yet contemplated the language implications of that
Hey, if you ever do it and it's it's post-"Alexander the Great" Greece and/or the Eastern Roman Empire, just hit me up before you time-travel and you won't have a problem with the language ;) As a native Greek with an interest in linguistics, I'm fairly familiar with Koine and Medieval Greek and I also tend to exercise reading old texts/"books" in ancient & medieval Greek every now and then.
Pre-Koine Greek I'm not as familiar with, aside from whatever I did in school (and, even so, that was just Attic Greek rather than any other pre-Koine dialect).
There was a book from a couple years ago by Brandon Sanderson called The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England, which acts like it's a book on this topic but is actually a tongue...
There was a book from a couple years ago be by Brandon Sanderson called The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England, which acts like it's a book on this topic but is actually a tongue in cheek soft sci-fi book with elements of fantasy. It's an easy read and I really enjoyed it.
I remember a while back having a detailed late-night conversation with some friends about how we'd do if we got teleported back to medieval times. It's a really fun thought experiment, and this video is a really fascinating dive into a lot of common misconceptions about the era from that lens.
This is something I definitely need because anytime I think about what I'd do if I suddenly got teleported to the past, it's naturally to medieval England. I've always figured I could probably invent penicillin.
Ha, for me it’s always* Rome or Greece. Haven’t yet contemplated the language implications of that, though…
*Every half-or-so year that this thought comes up :]
Realistically the language implications will be there even if you go to medieval England, as even late Middle English would be difficult for a modern English speaker to understand spoken unless they were experienced with Middle English from studying literature from that period (and even for a modern scholar, effective two-way communication would pose considerable difficulty). And if you go earlier in the medieval period, it only gets worse on that front.
Hey, if you ever do it and it's it's post-"Alexander the Great" Greece and/or the Eastern Roman Empire, just hit me up before you time-travel and you won't have a problem with the language ;) As a native Greek with an interest in linguistics, I'm fairly familiar with Koine and Medieval Greek and I also tend to exercise reading old texts/"books" in ancient & medieval Greek every now and then.
Pre-Koine Greek I'm not as familiar with, aside from whatever I did in school (and, even so, that was just Attic Greek rather than any other pre-Koine dialect).
If you've got a second hour to kill, the author made another video responding to comments he received on this one.
I can very much recommend watching that one, a lot of interesting ponderings there.
There was a book from a couple years ago
beby Brandon Sanderson called The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England, which acts like it's a book on this topic but is actually a tongue in cheek soft sci-fi book with elements of fantasy. It's an easy read and I really enjoyed it.