Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?

• J0hnD03@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The second he opens his mouth they know something off. Dialects and languages did change a bit.

  If you’re around superstitious and xenophobic people things can get out of hand quickly.

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  • rwtwm@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think a lot of people in this thread are overstating the suspicion of outsiders. International trade has existed for thousands of years. There was even limited tourism in the middle ages. It would be rare to encounter people that you couldn’t communicate with, but I don’t think you’d be automatically sacrificed.

    I’m in London, so would fare better than most as they would definitely be familiar with outsiders. That said people in many of the old European cities would likely be able to blag their way to local universities. Oxford definitely already existed 650 years ago so I’d start by heading there.

    I think all scholarly writing was in Latin at the time, so I’d need somebody to translate, but (with luck) I could move maths on a couple of hundred years. I reckon I could get basic electricity going too. Obviously the more you said upfront the more suspicious people would be, but if you drip-fed knowledge over a few years, trying to let the steps rest upon each other you could probably share a lot of what we know today.

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    • J0hnD03@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Fair point. Im from the country side of central Europe which should have some raiding going on at that time. I cant imagine the people to be super open.

      Hell, even in 2025 people mistrust outsiders where im from.

      My language didn’t even exist at that time. It would be a proto version mixed from 3 cultural groups which started forming at that time.

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• whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Maybe you missed the “as much as possible” part

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  • lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Maybe, but you did say you were going to find a cute girl. So you will be encountering some radars. I wish you the best of luck in this thought exercise

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    • whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I find it hilarious that in even a thought experiment with no bearing on reality you always have people that will shit on your hypothetical fantasies.

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