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Originally Posted by Willravel
I'd find my way to the Britain or Ireland. English comes from a combination of German and Celtic languages. I speak enough German to get by (and a tiny bit of Irish (don't call it Gaelic, trust me)), and I have an ear for languages. At worst, I'd need to take time to learn. At best I could pick up on the essentials quickly.
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Depending on where you'd land and when, you'd need to have more knowledge of French and Latin, most likely. There was a time in Britain when the legal and court systems were completely French (um, Old French, actually), and times when trade was done in Latin.
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"Where did you attend medical school?"
"The far East."
Credentials likely were not an issue back in 1008 AD.
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They'd be more interested in you as a spice trader, not a dealer of black magic. Be careful on how you play the Far East card.
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I beg your pardon, but I have to put up with a 6000 year old earth from a lot of people now. I can't imagine a heliocentric universe is going to be that difficult to ignore.
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You know, it would be like you today trying to postulate the 6,000-year-old earth. Actually, it would be worse than that, since no one in the Middle Ages would have anywhere near your knowledge of the universe. You'd be a devil, I'm telling you.
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My safety? This is an exercise in the absurd (and a fun one, at that). Still, the idea that making one's way would be somehow impossible in the past doesn't make much sense. I'm framing this as me accidentally being transported into the past, but if I had some sort of control, I'd probably take about 6 or 7 years to master ancient Greek language and history and then go back and become an early philosopher. I'd give myself a big, ridiculously Greek name like Hypogrporphyrylichuscero. And my philosophy would, of course, be called Hypogrporphyrylichusceroism.
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Yes, funny, at least, good Hypogrporphyrylichuscero.