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This might just be the closest we get to a time machine for some time. Or maybe ever.

Every "King Arthur travels to the year 2000" kinda script is now something that writes itself.

> Imagine having a conversation with someone genuinely from the period,

Imagine not just someone, but Aristotle or Leonardo or Kant!



I imagine King Arthur would say something like: Hwæt spricst þu be?


Wrong language. The Arthur of legend is a Celtic-speaking Briton fighting against the Germanic-speaking invaders. Old English developed from the language of his enemies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_language_decline_in_Eng...


Easier with Cervantes for Spanish speakers than King Arhur or Shakespeare.

With Alphonse X, o The Cid, it would be greater issues, but understandable over weeks.




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