Perfect pop culture English

Good_Scientist

Good_Scientist

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Why do so many of you time travellers speak such perfect pop culture slang. It's incredible, I for one would like to know how you manage this. Before you reply, it is worth noting that language is one of the most radical developments of human culture. It has MANY forms and many localisms, all of which don't seem to have changed from now to whenever you chose to come from. Incredible, 100 years ago people never dreamt of writing or communicating like we do today. You are seriously, implying (to my mind) that similar advances and changes hav not been made. I'm sorry I can't name some of you more specifically (maybe I shouldn't) I've read alot of stuff in a short time and am just firing this off.

DO NOT get me started on the other aspects of your stories, theories, predictions, inconsistencies and your lack of evidence, those I will leave as they are obviously important to you.

A good scientist
 
If you were a time traveller from the 70's and you didnt use the word 'cosmic' as slang, at least once in your sentence;

a.)i'd be dissapointed
b.)i wouldn't believe you

(note: 70's 'cosmic' is todays slang for 'wicked'/'cool'/'awesome' etc)

Kind regards,
Olly
 
Rubbish OllyB, noone near me used the word cosmic during the 70's, then again, I'm from England.
We mainly used words like 'why'd we vote labour' , and stuff like 'eek, rats in the streets again cos noone collects the rubbish anymore'.

I've heard people use 'cool' in the 80's, 'rad' in the 90's, but not many would use these terms much. I think it is more the structure of the language that would possibly give someones educational standard or class than where in time they come from, unless of course they are a hundred years from the future. I mean just look at some of Creedo's posts.
 
I take it no wanne be time traveller could explain themselves here!?!

Cheers (to all the fakes who couldn't reply anything to my statement)

Good Scientist
 
A lot of these 'supposed' TT's have a problem discerning the meanings of such easy words...for example..

They took out tiawan in may of 2005 but kept it quite, nobody
had any Idea things took place until a year later. by then it was too late.
I'm telling you now. Be prepaired!! - Kwake
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Before you get caught up in debating weather or not "TT" is possible, or weather a virus can mutate into a retro virus.(Which they CAN, please consult your medical journals.)
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It seems as though our future selves are really not fluent with the english language OR these TT's are Middle School students trying to have some fun. If I was a TT, I would make sure first and foremost that my language was fluent and I made sense when posting on a forum. Mastering the English language means you have some credibilty and are easier to believe. I find it hard to believe posters that get "Weather and whether" mixed up or "Quite and Quiet." I know I am kind of being harsh but we don't have the luxury of a face to face interview with these people, so this is what we must resort to along with the points they make.
 
Yea, if they are from 100 years in the future, not 10-20. How much different, besides a few words, is it from the 80s to now? I don't think it's that much...
 
That's just my opinion. If you watch old TV programs such as Gilligans Island, Quantum Leap, Star Trek: TOS...etc, and compare them to programs now such as Lost, Smallville...etc, the language is pretty much the same besides the way they talk. And that is Oral Language which changes more than written language. Written language on the other hand wouldn't change much at all.

I am currently reading through some papers from my Grandmom dated 1923 when she was principal of her school (letters and such) and there is not much difference in the way she wrote back then and the way I write (or people write) now.
 
so I don't think that is a valid arguement when trying to decipher WHETHER (haha) or not these posters (for lack of a better term) are TT's. I also don't mean to stir up any arguements, I am just throwing my opinion out there! /ttiforum/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Agreed. I mean if you think about it, anyone who time time travels is going to be schooled in the area in which they are traveling to. For example, if I wanted to travel back to 1925, I would be schooled in the events happening during that time, the content language they used and so on, such as WW1. And like you said, they are not going to just take someone off the street and ask them if they want to be a Time Traveler.

I would think that the Time Traveler would take some sort of test on where they are going. Writing and speaking skills would be an important topic to study if you were to travel back to a time where there were no computers, computer skills would be an important topic if you were to to travel back to our time because of the typing and internet skills needed.


And this all goes back to the to the previous posts...I don't think they would speak that much of a different language if they were from 20 years in the future. 100 years would be interesting but if they are being schooled, how much could you point out from just a post that they speak a different slang? I wouldn't think there would be enough evidence to prove that but hey, I could be wrong /ttiforum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
A person educated in any time will still have trouble adjusting to another time, even if trained to do so. If you look at the new communication methods we use today and the associated shortening and creation of words... How can you tell me that someone like chronohistorian could even be speaking the same language as us. He would have to learn it and even then he would come across as someone who couldn't speak english, not a teenager from california on drugs.

The english dialect changed very slightly when it was takan to the U.S, they messed it right up in an attemp to form some U.S language, which is of course bollocks. Australia didnt quite try to do that but, did created and incorporate native words and slang into their everyday language. And despite what you say written or spoken language is different today than it was 50-60 years ago never mind 100 or 200. So someone from 500 years in the future is not going to type and in essence speak, like a muppet from today's world.

GS
 
And despite what you say written or spoken language is different today than it was 50-60 years ago never mind 100 or 200. So someone from 500 years in the future is not going to type and in essence speak, like a muppet from today's world.
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Oh don't get me wrong GS, I agree totally with you that it changes. I was just talking about the likes of JT or the others that I posted that claimed they were from 20-25 years in the future. I believe that oral language may change somewhat in this time but written wouldn't change much at all besides a few words and how you relate them to other words. Like I said before, look back at the 80s. How much different are they to this time period (in written language).

But again, I agree totally with you that 100 - 200 years in the future, TTs should and would have trouble identifying themselves with the time period they were traveling to. But 25 years in the future, it would be hard to distinct them from our time period if they were to travel from 2030, or at least they could do somewhat of a good job in almost sounding like us.

And this is all just through posting on the internet. If you were to meet them face to face and have a conversation for days among weeks, then I believe you could tell that they were from a different time period because people tend to be 'different' in person. Trust me on this one, I am a marketer and most of my clients after talking to them on the phone or through emails, are totally different in person which is sometimes good and at other times, bad. And with this being said, we should just meet with these 'supposed' TTs and see for ourselves! :D
 
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