Babelfish - Doctor Who
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randomsushiDrabble. The TARDIS can convert speech, but gestures are a different matter.
Language evolves over time, the Doctor had seen it happen. Words that were acceptable one century were horrifically insulting the next, then obsolete. The TARDIS could catch slang sometimes, converting to a phrase more acceptable to his companions, but it couldn't change hand gestures and as Captain Jack pouted and signed ‘whatever’ in Mickey’s direction, he knew that he had been to this time before.
Language evolves over time, the Doctor had seen it happen. Words that were acceptable one century were horrifically insulting the next, then obsolete. The TARDIS could catch slang sometimes, converting to a phrase more acceptable to his companions, but it couldn't change hand gestures and as Captain Jack pouted and signed ‘whatever’ in Mickey’s direction, he knew that he had been to this time before.
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