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Jan. 31st, 2009 02:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynneSo over the past six months or so, I've betad ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shinyopals's DW fic and blithely pointed out every time she had the Doctor say "There's [something plural]", on the theory that the Doctor would be correct, dammit! He's even canonically corrected someone else's spoken grammar!
Now she tells me that in New Earth, he said "There is ten million people".
You have failed me, Doctor! Now I have to curl into a ball somewhere and mourn.
shinyopals's DW fic and blithely pointed out every time she had the Doctor say "There's [something plural]", on the theory that the Doctor would be correct, dammit! He's even canonically corrected someone else's spoken grammar!Now she tells me that in New Earth, he said "There is ten million people".
You have failed me, Doctor! Now I have to curl into a ball somewhere and mourn.
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Date: 2009-01-31 11:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-31 11:11 pm (UTC)But if it throws you off...does that mean you haven't noticed any similar mistakes? *hopeful*
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Date: 2009-01-31 11:13 pm (UTC)ACCEPT.
THE DOCTOR'S GRAMMAR IS AS BAD AS MINE.
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Date: 2009-01-31 11:14 pm (UTC)I WILL NOT ACCEPT IT.
*STICKS FINGERS IN EARS*
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Date: 2009-01-31 11:23 pm (UTC)Well, maybe not... she does read through hundreds of thousands of words and mark out every incorrect comma, so maybe I should be nice to her.
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Date: 2009-01-31 11:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-31 11:30 pm (UTC)The Doctor's an alien! I'm sure his brain is capable of keeping up the babbling and making sure it's correct AT THE SAME TIME!
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Date: 2009-01-31 11:29 pm (UTC)JUST LIKE THE DOCTOR AND ROSE
LOOK MA NO PUNCTUATION
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Date: 2009-01-31 11:33 pm (UTC)PUNCTUATION MISSES YOU.
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Date: 2009-01-31 11:35 pm (UTC)AND IF PUNCTUATION MISSED ME THAT MUCH IT WOULD BUY ME FLOWERS AND CAKE AND APOLOGISE FOR BEING ANNOYING
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Date: 2009-01-31 11:39 pm (UTC)YOU JUST DON'T APPRECIATE PUNCTUATION PROPERLY.
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Date: 2009-01-31 11:42 pm (UTC)AND PUNCTUATION DOESNT APPRECIATE ME
MY WRITING IS ART
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Date: 2009-01-31 11:48 pm (UTC)THE DOCTOR AND ROSE ALSO CARE ABOUT MAKING SENSE. THEY DON'T WANT THEIR MEANING TO BE OBSCURED THROUGH BAD GRAMMAR AND PUNCTUATION.
PUNCTUATION MIGHT LIKE YOU BETTER IF YOU WERE NICER TO IT.
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Date: 2009-01-31 11:57 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-02-01 12:55 am (UTC)(And now I'm thinking there really should be fic where the Doctor corrects Jackie's grammar one too many times and she shoves him in a closet.)
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Date: 2009-02-01 05:32 am (UTC)Also, I bet he tries to put in all kinds of silly adverbs and descriptions instead of just getting to the point. That would probably drive ME crazy. XD
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Date: 2009-02-01 07:42 pm (UTC)I love this post.