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Date: 2017-07-07 07:04 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2017-07-08 03:16 pm (UTC)tl;dr: one of the actors who played the Doctor from the extremely long-running British television SF show "Doctor Who."
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Date: 2017-07-08 09:16 pm (UTC)Respectfully submitted,
Dr. Whom: Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoëpist, and Philological Busybody
(Icon: Dr. Whomster
© Charlene Taylor D'Alessio
http://home.earthlink.net/~edisonbear/
Used by permission.
Tom Baker's Dr. Who, as an anthropomorphic hamster, in front of the Tardis; an earlier version. Part of her Hamster series.)
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Date: 2017-07-09 12:07 am (UTC)I first met the Doctor in 1965, when the First Doctor was introduced to Canadian audiences after the CBC began broadcasting the then-two-year-old show. I fell in love with him, and the marvelous TARDIS at that point; to a 10-year-old, something that was bigger on the inside was transcendentally wonderful.
I rediscovered the Doctor (Third and Fourth versions) via PBS when I moved to the States in 1981, and then re-rediscovered him in 2006. And I've become as much a Whovian as I've always been an science fiction and fantasy fan.
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Date: 2017-07-09 12:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-07-09 03:58 am (UTC)That's not short for "the latest Doctor", is it? ;-)
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Date: 2017-07-09 05:51 pm (UTC)To be tediously literal about it, though, "too long; didn't read" has become internet for a spectrum of meaning that includes "I've been going on and on, and here's the short version." It's definitely evolved from what I believe was the original connotation of "you went on too long and I couldn't be bothered to read what you had to say."
I do enjoy watching the evolution of language use online. And I imagine that you, as an orthoepist and philologist, would as well.
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