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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8001327" data-attributes="member: 18">Speak for yourself, mate, I certainly could, and yes that includes accounting for extreme regional accents. The idea that intelligent people routinely actually couldn't understand each other (rather than just being snobs and reverse-snobs about it) in the 1800s is absolute nonsense. Extremely thick accents and heavy use of local argot will slow communication but they won't prevent it absolutely, which is what you are saying with "wouldn't be able to understand them at all" (I will admit that I am unusually good at penetrating accents, but I'm hardly alone in this). Authentic 1300s English would be much, much more challenging, perhaps not really viable with accents in the mix too. And 1100s? Well it's not even really English at that point and yes that would be worse than if they were say, speaking Italian now (I don't speak Italian, but French and Latin would let me get more of it than I could 1100s English).All that said it is a total red herring, I agree with you there. There's no chance the movie will be in anything other than modern English, nor should it be.</blockquote>