[03]: For all you time travelling types....

[thathoopyfrood.livejournal.com]

I found a copy of Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveller's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations in the library! Nice to have a little slice of home, and I thought it'd be useful for you time travellers to check out. 'Course, you all seem like experts, so you probably know these things, but it might be humorous. It can tell you how to describe something that was about to happen in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward two days. AND it can tell you how to do so depending on when you're talking about the event. Most people give up when they hit the Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional, but you Doctors, especially, might be able to get past it. ♥


((ooc: American spellings never happened. >>))

Comments

[bitunlikely.livejournal.com]

You travel through time, too?

[thathoopyfrood.livejournal.com]

Not normally, but it happens on occasion.

[bitunlikely.livejournal.com]

But you have met my fathers.

I'm Jenny.

[thathoopyfrood.livejournal.com]

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that your fathers are the Doctors.

Nice to meet you, I'm Ford.

[interferes.livejournal.com]

Oh, I should think we could. Gallifreyan has two hundred and eight tenses, after all.

[thathoopyfrood.livejournal.com]

Two hundred and eight? Really? That's pretty impressive. Which Doctor are you then?

[interferes.livejournal.com]

Leave it to Galifreyans to over-complicate everything. And I'm the eighth, how do you do?

[thathoopyfrood.livejournal.com]

Pleasure to meet you, Doctor, I'm Ford. I met one of your other selves...your Fifth I believe. Seems you're both neighbors of mine.

[bitunlikely.livejournal.com]

It does?

[interferes.livejournal.com]

Mmhm. It's all very dull, trust me.

[bitunlikely.livejournal.com]

But it's still my heritage. The only one this place left me.

[gingersnark.livejournal.com]

Sounds almost as bad as my Maths class, to be honest.

[thathoopyfrood.livejournal.com]

[chuckle] Not a fan of Maths?

[gingersnark.livejournal.com]

Not the Maths taught in that wretched school, no. Dead boring, and it didn't help that the Brigadier wasn't all that fond of me either.

[thathoopyfrood.livejournal.com]

Well, if you want to learn some fun Maths, I give great lessons after I've had a few Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters.

[not-from-mars.livejournal.com]

Two hundred eight tenses, one hundred percent mind-numbingly boring.

... How did I know that?

[interferes.livejournal.com]

All right, Doctor?

[not-from-mars.livejournal.com]

... Yeah, yeah, fine. Was just odd, s'all.

[interferes.livejournal.com]

I'd imagine so. Seems a bit like your memories may be returning.

[thathoopyfrood.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing you're the one with amnesia? Maybe it's getting better?

[not-from-mars.livejournal.com]

Hope that's the case. [foooo exhale] So - who're you, then?

[thathoopyfrood.livejournal.com]

I'm Ford, Ford Prefect! Nice to meet you, Doctor. Which number are you?

[mysticalvender.livejournal.com]

I'm going out on a limb here and saying 'BUZUH?'

[thathoopyfrood.livejournal.com]

Time travel speak, Lorne. It's crazy stuff.

[mysticalvender.livejournal.com]

It sounds it. I'll stick with the present, that's weird enough for me.