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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Generally speaking, in the real world, the majority of people could never communicate with anyone who lived more than a few hundred miles away for most of human history, not just because of different regions having entirely different languages, but even due to different dialects of the same language (fuck, I have enough trouble understanding some people from the South today, in spite of media and standardized education supposedly "normalizing" English for all American speakers).

I would think a large part of that would also have to do with the fact that until about 100 years ago 99.9% of humans died within 20 miles of the spot they were born never having traveled further than 20 miles from their birthplace in their entire lives.
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