Doctor Who Fan Club V2.910113.14

[Scarf]

Study for finals? Psshhh, no. I'm learning circular Gallifreyan.

Which one?

[The Paladog]

Are we talking about Circular Gallifreyan? I love Circular Gallifreyan.

[aleatory]

Study for finals? Psshhh, no. I'm learning circular Gallifreyan.

Which one?

Basically the English language expressed with Gallifreyan letters: This article and this guide. I also found a translator you can download: here. I just find it an interesting alphabet, read circularly, and thought it'd be fun to doodle some Gallifreyan words

[Speedythecat]

Study for finals? Psshhh, no. I'm learning circular Gallifreyan.

Which one?

Basically the English language expressed with Gallifreyan letters: This article and this guide. I also found a translator you can download: here. I just find it an interesting alphabet, read circularly, and thought it'd be fun to doodle some Gallifreyan words

i learned how to write Gallifreyan last year... but i haven't done it in so long

[Scarf]

Study for finals? Psshhh, no. I'm learning circular Gallifreyan.

Which one?

Basically the English language expressed with Gallifreyan letters: This article and this guide. I also found a translator you can download: here. I just find it an interesting alphabet, read circularly, and thought it'd be fun to doodle some Gallifreyan words

Ahh, Sherman (Shermannnn *shakes fist*). Have you seen Doctor's Cot Gallifreyan? I'm really into promoting it, the person who designed it is a real legend and let me play around with painting one of my ties with it recently. I think it's a lot nicer and more consistent personally (everyone thinks that Sherman's is consistent but it's really not at all :/), and it's designed to look canonically like the writing on the Doctor's cot, so that's cool.

Also Greencrook. But that's much trickier.

(hullo there Paladog)

[Physical-Pancakes]

^^ I agree, the shermans one is just one circle, whereas the doctors cot is multiple circles and looks much nicer, plus I found it really cool how they did sounds instead of letters.

[Zookrates]

I. Have. To. Learn. Gallifreyan...!

[Stormageddon]

Oh, I didn't know there was an actual language! I thought the team was just brainstorming and put random circles together when they needed it. I should have known that with a fandom that big the language would actually be developed. Okay. I am going to learn this. I can use it to pass notes with my Whovian friends.

[Filla]

BBC is probably never going to sanction an official gallifreyan language, then fans could find out the doctors true name, because his name is written on his cradle in a good man goes to war. He gave the cradle to Amy.

[Atwood]

BBC is probably never going to sanction an official gallifreyan language, then fans could find out the doctors true name, because his name is written on his cradle in a good man goes to war. He gave the cradle to Amy.

I'm pretty sure that wasn't his true name - as I recall, when Moffatt was asked about whether the writing was the Doctor's name, he said he'd wait until people tattooed it on their foreheads and then tell them what it really meant. X3 My guess is that it would be just a Gallifreyan lullaby, a traditional phrase, a blessing/protection of some sort, maybe his house/family name, etc. Considering how private the true name is supposed to be, having his true name printed on his cot would be kind of like Earth parents carving their child's SINumber on to the crib. :b It's probably worth keeping in mind that true names were actually dangerous and were kept hidden for a reason (see The Shakespeare Code). Time Lords were from the time of old word-based magic (remember the Doctor telling Amy about the old Gallifreyan language and how it could destroy and create things just by being spoken?), and Gallifrey used to be controlled by 'witches' of a sort (the Pythia), who probably could have used true names to harm. By hiding their true names and making themselves unable to even speak their names except under specific circumstances, the Time Lords protected themselves from being killed or controlled through that old magic. :3