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Yeah, especially considering that even as late as the Middle Ages, peasants between local districts couldn't understand one another for local dialects.
Just one of the many ways lord held onto their power.
How would a modern English-speaker fare? Um, you'd be mistaken for a foreigner. The English might think you were French and vice versa. Depending on the year you land on, this could be either bad or catastrophic.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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