Talk:Gallifreyan (language)

Identical with English?
Look at The History of the Time War. It is clearly written in English. If the Gallifreyans wrote it for themselves, there is no reason it should be in English unless they use it themselves. Movsar ☎  13:39, April 29, 2013 (UTC)
 * The "circular" and "Greek" scripts could be just codes or ciphers.
 * We don't know that the history of the time war was written by a Gallifreyan. It's a pretty impossible book considering that the Time War is still happening and that everyone involved in it is time locked away. We don't know who wrote it or what language it was written in. Also, we were seeing the book as Clara saw it, and she'd have been able to read anything in the library regardless of what language it was in because of the TARDIS translation circuits. We hear people who are really speaking any other language as English. Real world or not. Dead or not. This is both because it's the only way the series works for viewers without subtitling EVERYTHING, and because this is how the Doctor's companion experiences things. For all we know the Doctor speaks mostly Gallifreyn, not English. All of this goes for writing too. Anoted ☎  14:01, April 29, 2013 (UTC)
 * How do you know the Doc does not speak English? Obviously he could communicate using supernatural means (I'm sure this is possible in DWU) but what about the episode with Rose noticing that he speaks with a "northern accent" and the Doctor replies "lots of planets have a north" ? I think this could be an indication that not only he speaks English, but all Gallifreyans do. Movsar ☎  12:40, April 30, 2013 (UTC)