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[Muffin]

[erekose]

[Centipede]

I read an alternate history novel where the Black Plague wiped out 90% of the European population, what if it did a lot less damage in their world? That would account for the similarity in language and their more advanced technology.

Just random thoughts, but that's all we have to do right now.

[StarryNight]

[filmguy1013]

Media

[erekose]

There were probably distinct differences in tech long before the plauge became a major problem. The electromagnetism experiments were being conducted around 1300AD our time and that's well before the black plague became a problem. It's an interesting point though, when did they break off from us? I'm focusing my theories earlier though. Maybe Atilla completed his conquest of Rome and reinvigorated the western empire, Maybe the historical Arthur was more effective at his fights against the Saxons, and managed to achieve a lasting peace, Maybe King Harold won the Battle of Hastings. Until we get some definitive proof (I've sent a few questions to Scarlett on these topics.) there are any number of possibilities for the breakage point. It is, however, fun to speculate what exactly caused their world to become so different, and yet so similar, to ours.

Maybe we should start a new thread on this topic, I dont think the history one
quite covers the spec on alternate timelines.

[Scott]

and fFrom a pragmatic point of view, it wouldnt be very interesting fFor sente to email us and say "The cube is at 123 main street. could you be ever so kind as to go get it fFor me?" well that was a mighty short arg!

anyway. their world doesnt work like that. read the sentinal and think "Games and puzzles are the most important thing in these people's world. they wont tell anything without it being creatively interpretted." Which is what makes the paintings so tantalizing. a photograph only captures what is in fFront of the lens. a painting captures a fFluttering image of what takes place in the space between subject and object.

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[erekose]

[Scott]

Let's refer back to the preamble, shall we?

[neophoenix]

Re: Media

[neophoenix]

[Kensuke]

Wow, my first post (after the one in introducitons ^^)

As it seems to my by this topic, the whole language thing still hasn't been covered. Sorry if it has, and what I'm going to speak here was already discussed.

When all those newspapers ads were revealed on the perplex city site's movie, there was one in french, right? So, not only they know english, but french, too. It's coherent with the shared history theory, although it doesn't confirm it or exclude any other theory.

If they, on other side, "learned" our languages, I think it's safe to assume the first one they would learn is english, as it is now the most international language of Earth. So why french? Nowadays, chinese would probably be a more important language worldwide than french. Well, french was the international language before english, so it may be related.

Again, sorry if it was already discussed (although I didn't find anything using the Search feature)

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