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How far back into your country's history could you go without needing a translator? (lemm.ee)
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I asked this before elsewhere, but I thought it led to some interesting answers.

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[โ€“] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As an Egyptian, maybe a little over a thousand years, as that's when most people started speaking Arabic, though depending on where exactly I am I could luck into an Arab community, in which case I'd last until maybe 1200 years go. Before that it was Coptic and I don't speak a lick of that.

[โ€“] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

I'm curious, how much kinship do modern Egyptians feel with the Pyramid-builders? Would you say "we" built the Pyramids, or "they" built the Pyramids?