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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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* In ''[[Megas XLR]]'', humans in the year 3037 speak modern English.
* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' has various ghosts that are at least centuries old speaking modern English.
* 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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