• Papercrane@feddit.de
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    First of all, no one would understand you, but how someone already pointed out, make a spool with copper and spin it. For bonus points, put a iron slab inside the spool

    Edit: as someone pointed out you kinda need a magnet

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      Plain copper will get you nowhere. Adding iron slab also won’t help. You have to have magnetic field to generate electricity

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      eh language barriers are generally overstated i think, people with completely unrelated languages develop pidgins within the decade, and if you’re dropped into a place where they speak some complete gibberish like french you’ll still just naturally figure it out given a year or so of being forced to endure it.

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        That is very true, but maybe they would just kill you or think that you are crazy before you would have the chance to actually change mankind

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          maybe, but frankly i think it’s at least equally likely that they just see you as a blessing from the heavens and frankly get a little too enthusiastic about your knowledge.

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          English has changed a lot (no I’ve not read a lot of poetry in languages other than my own), some others may have changed less. Maybe Aramaic, Hebrew, Arabic. Greek has changed but some people know ancient Greek