Banestorm language question - english?

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Originally Posted by Rupert

From further down p.33, English won't help you. French might if you land in just the right place. Being able to read Classical Arabic and speak either Classical or modern Arabic is good in the Muslim places, and Church Latin is good in Christian lands - these will at least let you speak to scholars and other educated people.

All language even Latin drift. What Latin Sounded Like - and how we know

As for the rest I seriously doubt any modern language would allows you function above broken. English when though a major change in pronunciation and spelling to the point it is called the great vowel shift

Take Chauser from the 1380s to 1400s:
Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour

Now here is those lines in modern English:
When April with its sweet-smelling showers
Has pierced the drought of March to the root,
And bathed every vein (of the plants) in such liquid