You've got it. In 500 years we'll never advanced so much and there will have been so much current exchange and drift I doubt you could be understood at all.
In the 1500s you could get by as a foreigner who barely understood the language. You'd have zero cultural norms so most language that wasn't literal would be unintelligible.
Time travel to the future is interesting but not harmful. Time travel to the past is disastrous. But no one had concept if it do you'd be free to overwrite the future.
Soup was sheltered from the storm (lemmy.world)
In which scenario would you last longer before being outed as a time traveller?
Being dropped 500 years ago into your ancestors’ community....