Time Traveling Sex Tourism

[SteelPoint]

That's fine until she asks how long the journey will take... you look at your watch and say "Oh, probably from two to two to two two" and then back that up by saying "as it happens, the journey I myself am making will likely last from two to two to two two... too..."

You know: TO all intents and purposes...

 

[12gone]

And women too. Want to fuck a Founding Father? How about Alexander the Great?

You'd have better luck with Alexander as a dude.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

simultaneous translation is already reality. I had a conversation yesterday with a Chinese speaker that needed directions. Her phone worked as an intermediary. For all intents and purposes, she WAS speaking English. Or i was speaking Chinese. Who knew.

Well, that's great and all, but if I whip up my phone before a time in which phones were a thing, I might encounter myself in a situation in which I'll be accused as a witch for having a magic mirror that talks?

Less likely in the Illustration period, maybe. I think I would try to exchange Isaac Newton's celibacy with the knowledge from the magical black mirror that speaks because he was into that wizardry business. I'm not sure how I'd make him fall though, but it's a cool prompt in my head, more so considering the gravity of the consequences that might have in how history will remember him in the future. He might drop alchemy for prostitutes? I don't know. It could happen.

You'd have better luck with Alexander as a dude.

Well, there you have it! GM is included as yet another possible audience for this.

 

[SteelPoint]

I wonder if HG Wells had any remote idea what he'd started...

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I wonder if HG Wells had any remote idea what he'd started...

He said the same thing about Kitty.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Seems to have been preceded by at least 160 years also. I find stories back as far as 1733.

 

[LupusDei]

simultaneous translation is already reality. I had a conversation yesterday with a Chinese speaker that needed directions. Her phone worked as an intermediary. For all intents and purposes, she WAS speaking English. Or i was speaking Chinese. Who knew.

And I bet it will be very messed up for rare and ancient languages the model never included. Russian empire killed 200-300 languages during nineteenth century... and that's just one example. Living languages change, vocabulary drift, dialects emerge and vanish, pidgins get traction...

And your universal translator will mess things up when euphemisms and idioms are at play, especially ones being fleeting inside speech of a subculture.

Or, as one genius, but unfortunately hateful Russian chauvinist marketing director beautifully demonstrated in an impromptu office lesson, it's absolutely impossible to say anything in Latvian that couldn't be interpreted as sexually suggestive (and we were simultaneously bending over in guffaws and thinking, damn that guy needs to go on a long walk in the marshlands (I mean, get dissapeared)). I bet it's similar with other ancient enough languages.