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[amajestictale]

[ the video flickers on to a table--it looks to be in Odin, where the Eleventh Doctor is sitting with one leg slung over the other, what looks to be a Scrabble handbook in one hand.

there's a game currently in progress, letters clearly seen. except they're a bit different from what you might qualify as letters. he flips to the last page with a huff and sets it back down, then laces his fingers together. ]

Now, if you lot have played Scrabble before, good! If not, you really ought to expand your board game database, it's really quite fun! Better than Monopoly--who likes Monopoly? Monopolies were outlawed for a reason.

Rubbish game.

[ oh, right, he should stop rambling. ]

So! Me and... myselves, Ninth and Tenth, are in a bit of a pickle: should "of Rassilon" be acceptable as a suffix? It's as commonplace as "ing" in the English language.

Sort of. Maybe. It's got to count.

I'm sure of it.

[ ooc: the other two Doctors, (andsowasi) and (tardisblue) will also be responding to comments, so don't fear if we skip someone! ]

Comments

[tardisblue]

I'd say it was more like an ist than an ing.

[amajestictale]

Really?

Staff... ist. [ Staff of Rassilon... ] No translation's perfect, no, but still--ist?

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[badwolf]

[...]

I think that'd be cheating. Just a bit.

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[amajestictale]

Are you accusing me of cheating, Rose Tyler?

[ puppy faiiis. ]

[consults]

No.

[even if he has no damned clue as to what the hell those game pieces are saying]

[amajestictale]

You're absolutely sure about that.

[tardisblue]

Good person. Of course it isn't.

[doctors]

Since when do you speak... Gallifreyan, was it? [ DOCTORS HELP HIM OUT. ]

[andsowasi]

Y'just had t'get them started again.

[Oi people stop taking sides he just wants to play the damn game >:C]

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[timesnewroman]

...Is there no rulebook for this?

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[tardisblue]

He's ignoring it.

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[doctors]

[ the fuck, man. he's just sorta headtilting at the tiles. ]

I... guess not? Not sure if the network is the best way to settle this.

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[amajestictale]

Well, we need some unbiased opinions in here. And you're as unbiased as they come!

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[tardisblue]

I think it's the perfect way, as obviously the majority know that of Rassilon just won't hold water.

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[andsowasi]

If I'd known he was going t'take this debate public I never would've left.

[Uagh.]

Mind helpin' me tell him t'just give it a rest and keep the game goin'?

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[watsowned]

I vote yes. It totally counts -- if only because most things would sound cooler if they had "of Rassilon" tacked onto the end.

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[amajestictale]

Sound cooler, but not be cooler, yes.

One vote for yes! Getting here, thankfully.

Who're you?

[mybffmrhat]

I've never heard of a suffix that's two words before...

Say, what language is that, anyway?

[amajestictale]

Well, now you have!

Circular Gallifreyan. Think of it as British English. With circles. If it makes you feel like you understand it.

It's not like British English at all. But if it helps.

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[darkbreak]

[Screw the game. Screw the crazy ass letters. He's honing in on something else that caught his attention.]

...Yourselves?

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[amajestictale]

Oh, they'll be tuning in. Ninth and Tenth. My other selves. Previous selves. Ish.

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[clockeyes]

...

[Don't mind the man with clock for eyes just tilting his head at the screen like a curious bird.]

What sort of letters are those? And what's a Scrabble? Or Rassilion? I don't understand.

[amajestictale]

Circular Gallifreyan--you've never played Scrabble?

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[spacecasing]

Is that the language where you come from? It's coooooool.

And also it sounds like a suffux to me! But I've never actually played Scrabble hehehe.

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[tardisblue]

It is. It's very involved, but a piece of home.

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[suppressthedark]

The hell is that?

[ARE THOSE EVEN-WHAT.]

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[tardisblue]

Letters of course. What, you thought everyone used cursive?

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[wristbands]

I don't even know what I'm supposed to be looking at.

[because seriously what is going on here.]

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[amajestictale]

It's Scrabble: Gallifreyan edition!

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[duty]

And for those of us who have no idea what "Scrabble" is?

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[amajestictale]

See: expand board game database.

completely ignore that last tag, it's early lmao

[perpetualized]

Think you're asking the wrong pool of people about the linguistics of Gallifreyan, Doctors.

Besides, you all win in the end, if you're just playing with yourselves. [Griiiiiin]

fff s'alright <3

[amajestictale]

Shh-- [ that's the point jack, shh, but he puts a finger before his lips--

though it drops. ] We're going to have to go back to saying "stop it" when you introduce yourself.