re: #297 wheat-dogg

One thing does bug me, though. Language. People travel back in time and have no trouble speaking with the “locals,” even though language changes even over decades. Go back to 1960 and imagine try to explain what meme, tweet, cellphone, broadband, metrosexual, or wifi to someone. Go back to 1560 and even speaking simple English would confuse the hell out of someone (as would your American accent).

The only author who ever addressed this issue was Michael Crichton in “Time Line.” As the characters travel back in time to the Middle Ages, they require an interpreter who will translate their modern English (and modern French) into Occitan.