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From: percus@acf4.UUCP (Allon G. Percus)
Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho
Subject: Re: Why is a TARDIS so big?
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Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 17:15:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 21 17:15:00 1985
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> I seem to remember a discussion a while back about how the Doctor and
> his companions are able to understand the many languages that they must
> run across (can you imagine all the inhabitants of all the universes
> speaking the kings English?).  Perhaps, since The Doctor and his companions
> understand other languages, they would translate whatever others called
> it into the name they knew, e.g. TARDIS.

As the originator of (and perhaps the only contributor to) the
aforementioned language discussion, I have to agree with this
theory (as I mentioned in that discussion).  Indeed, it seems
that we (the viewers) hear things the way an average Earth
companion of the Doctor would.  Since they use the word TARDIS,
we know the time capsule as a TARDIS, and we therefore understand
whatever "Time Capsule" is in Gallifreyan, as "TARDIS."

                                         A. G. Percus
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