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[wpietri]

Regarding communicating the rules: One way is to write them in basic English, and then bury one of these with it:

http://rosettaproject.org/

It's a disc, meant to last thousands of years, that contains parallel texts for thousands of languages. The theory is that if they speak something descended from any language today, they can use the parallel texts to decode the rules.

[Svip → wpietri]

Surely, just leaving a French-English dictionary should do the job. People will likely speak either French or English in the future, surely!

[outside1234 → Svip]

I think you mean English or Mandarin, since nobody (probabilistically speaking) speaks French.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_numb...