Its the 14th century and you’ve had no time to prepare, after you’re done reading this post you are snapped. What do you do?

  • athairmor@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Do my best to warn the locals of the coming invasion. Learn their language and teach them English and tell them not to trust any group of strangers who speak it.

    Help improve their technology as best I can. I’m not sure how much I’d be able to improve it. At least, teach them to wear masks and wash their hands when around sick people.

    • Kookie215@lemmy.worldOP
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      19 hours ago

      I don’t think our English is anywhere close to Olde English though, we might be hardly able to understand them ourselves, and I don’t think they would understand us at all.

    • superkret@feddit.org
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      You’re a stranger speaking English trying to convince the locals not to trust any stranger speaking English?

      • athairmor@lemmy.world
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        Yes. I’d have to learn their language first, anyway. I already know bits of modern versions but not much. Then, introduce the warning of invasions and teach them English with the caution that people speaking groups of people speaking will bring death and destruction.

        It’s not like they’ll already have a fear of English or any concept of the language before I teach it to them.

        • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
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          23 hours ago

          They should probably fear the Spanish first. Or the French. Or the Portuguese. Depending on area.

    • I guess it’s worth a shot but you’d a few hundred years after the Norse abandoned their settlements in North America and about 120 years before Columbus’s first voyage.