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* In ''[[Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure]]'', this is mostly averted among the historic figures, with only some minor exceptions:
** The people the duo meet 1501 England speak in modern English, but in that time period, they would be speaking Early Modern English, which would be mostly intelligible but sound quite archaic to modern listeners.
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== Literature ==
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* ''[[Xkcd]]'' subverted this [http://xkcd.com/771/ once].
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* Played straight in ''[[Futurama]]''. In the year 3000, there are only a few notable language changes. "Ask" is now always pronounced "aks" (except when the writers forget it), and not just by rappers, and "X-mas" is actually pronounced as "ecksmass". Also, people still speak modern English in the year 50 million.
** Meanwhile, [[Take That|French is an incomprehensible dead language]].
* In the 10th century, the main language of Scotland was Scots Gaelic. Despite this, the main characters of ''[[Gargoyles]]'' have no trouble communicating when they come to 20th century America. Later, Xanatos, Fox, and Xanatos' father have no trouble when they end up going back in time.
* Parodied in a time traveling episode of ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]''
* The illegal immigrants from the future that come to present day ''[[South Park]]'' speak an unrecognizable language. [[Acceptable Targets|And insist on bilingual education]].
* In ''[[Megas XLR]]'', humans in the year 3037 speak modern English.
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* Played straight in ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'', where Mr. Peabody and Sherman never have language barrier problems no matter what time period they go to. One could assume a genius like Mr. Peabody who could build a time machine might have a translator device handy, but then, given the target audience, there's not much detail on the technology.
* In ''[[G.I. Joe|G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero]]'', Serpentor, right from the minute he drew first breath, spoke perfect English, even though ''none'' of the known historic figures who donated their DNA did so. Of course, they used a ''lot'' of [[Artistic License]] regarding history for his origin, even by the standards of that show.
== Real Life ==
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