One more thing...

[hmpf]

though I really should be writing... But this made me laugh today, and maybe it will make you laugh too, and laughing is good, so...

The BBC are clearly following discussions at Outpost Gallifrey. How do I know? Well... on the various mock-up websites the BBC have set up to accompany Doctor Who over the past weeks there have been oblique, and occasionally very funny references to theories and jokes posted on the Outpost Gallifrey forums. Today I discovered perhaps the best one so far: ever since a picture of Captain Jack riding a bomb on which 'schlechter Wolf' had been stencilled appeared in some magazine a week or two ago, people have been speculating about the meaning of that bit of German. See, 'schlechter Wolf' is babelfish online translator German for 'bad wolf'. That is to say, it's a word by word translation, but it's still wrong. The bad wolf of myth and lore is called 'böser Wolf' ('evil Wolf') in German, whereas 'Schlechter Wolf' roughly translates as 'rubbish wolf', i.e. bad in a quality sense, not in a moral sense. From this the theory was developed (tongue firmly in cheek) that perhaps this was a hint, and the elusive Bad Wolf of Doctor Who Season 27 would turn out to be, in one poster's words, 'a bit rubbish'.

Well, fast foward to a week or so later. It's today, and I'm reading the latest update on http://www.whoisdoctorwho.co.uk, the mock-website of Mickey, Rose's boyfriend, about the great Doctor conspiracy. Well... there was a pic there today of the 'schlechter Wolf' bomb, with the following explanation:

>>These bombs appear to have been used during raids on London up until early 1942. They rarely exploded - early theories were that they were "a bit rubbish"<<

Hehehee...

*loves the BBC web team*

Comments

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

Hell yeah, being noticed by the BBC. One thing on my "1000 things to accomplish in my life" *lol*
So being a native german speaker was for once a good thing

Endure

[kittygoslingp.livejournal.com]

I recently read your story "Endure" (as recommended by lastrega on crackvan) and just had to let you know that I really enjoyed and was impressed by it. I was saying in my journal that one of the things I particularly enjoyed it about it was that fact that it sounds so lovely when spoken aloud, like poetry or a monologue, something about the rhythm the punctuation makes, the repetition and the sounds of the words (how do you manage to convey the sense of what you want to say firstly and secondly choose words which run together sound beautiful?). Anyway a wonderful and unusual reading experience, thank you.

Thanks for the lovely feedback.

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

It's always nice if readers take the time to comment. Especially on a story that I never thought would find readers at all! *g*

Oh, and about the rhythm and stuff...

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

part of my 'method' of writing is stopping a lot to reread what I've written, and read it out aloud, listening very carefully how it sounds.