- Being dropped 500 years ago into your ancestors’ community.
- Being dropped 500 years into the future in your community.
You have a day to source some clothing appropriate to the time period. Unfortunately, that’s not enough time to learn a dialect.
I mean this seems like an easy answer to me no? People in the past wouldn’t suspect you’re from the future, they’d think you were posessed or something. People in the future would be much more likely to think of time travel, plus they’d have records of old accents and stuff.
I think it would be pretty easy to blend into the future than the past. Though I don’t think in either case you’d necessarily be outed as a time traveler. The past, you’re a witch. The future, you’re just a crazy person.
Scenario 2 is where you would be outed as a time traveller.
Scenario 1 is where you would be outed as a witch.
Not sure witch would happen first.
Well with scenario 1, it would be fairly quick because people speak way different now than 500 years ago.
European colonization of America wouldn’t have started yet so a majority of Americans wouldn’t even be on the same continent. Most of us wouldn’t even speak the same language as our ancestors. My ancestors would most likely understand English but wouldn’t speak it as their primary language. That may somewhat disguise the dialect difference but would cause all sorts of other problems. They may be actively fighting a war with England or they may be in a period of uneasy peace getting ready for the next war with England.
That would be an interesting one, because I speak enough old norse and Latin to pass as a foreigner from the far east (until they realise I don’t speak Arabic). But 2523 English will be unrecognizable, and worse, they’d probably recognize our “old” English. It’s like if Shakespeare showed up today, vs some guy from the future who barely speaks English and pretends to only speak an uncommon foreign language.
languages change over time but you can easily pretend to be mute
1 - pretend while you learn the language
2 - you’re fucked, future tech cured this centuries ago
So how about, you go to the future, look up a museum of your time, then just go and be yourself, like the people who do similar in museums now of the past.
Either way though, unless time travel has become widespread in the future, you wouldn’t be outed, people would just straight think you’re a bit odd. There’s people now who straight up claim to be time travellers and we’re just like, OK mate, suuuure.
Depends if the future is Star Trek type utopia or Terminator style post rise of the machines.
Ancestors, since they’d be far more likely rationalise my bizarre present-day manner as being possessed by demons or something to that effect rather than assuming I’m from half a millennium in the future, I can’t say I have any specific guesses as to what the society of 2523 might look like, but I suspect that they’d be far more likely to jump to the somewhat improbable sci-fi explanation of time travel (or perhaps some other technological explanation like mind malware if brain implants become a thing) than assuming supernatural explanations of demons or witchcraft.
On the other hand, 500 years ago you would probably be taken for insane or possessed if you accidentally spoke and/or acted as people do today.
Back then that’s a high chance of getting burned on a stake or possibly lobotomized by some crude scholar experimenting on a perceived madman.
In comparison in the future, provided mankind still exists, you’d be taken as an interesting walking anachronism to be studied. Maybe someone who gets to talk about life in the past at a university. But either way you’d most likely live a comfortable life of futuristic luxury in either a utopian post scarcity society, or kept as some feudal dilettante’s status symbol. Still better than dying of dysentery in the dark ages imo
I wouldn’t make it with the Vikings man. I wouldn’t be outed as a time traveler but I would die
Is this like that “the 90s were 10 years ago” effect? The viking age was 1,000 years ago. More, really.
500 years ago the world had been circumnavigated
Oh fuck me I didn’t process the 500 year mark when writing this. In that case I’d probably just starve
