Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Doctor Who

The new series of Doctor Who finished yesterday.
It is, of course, available on bittorrent and no doubt
on other similar services.
I thoroughly recommend Doctor Who as a linguistic and cultural
exercise: Words such as "dalek"
and "Tardis" would be understood by most British native
speakers of English. (In the US, probably only Dr Who
or SF fans).
The new series is of course available for download
with better video and sound quality than the old episodes
are.
The first episode of the current series is called "Rose",
and the BBC page about the series is at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/
If you want information about the old series, documentaries
about it, and even a musical history (!), it's all there.
I _especially_ recommend, from the current series,
the episode "Dalek" and the two-part story "The Empty
Child" and "The Doctor Dances".

 The new series of Doctor Who finished yesterday.
Is this the series you're talking about?
 
http://makeashorterlink.com/?U2E031A4B
Tschuess,
Enrico il Pentolaio.
P.S. Prima o poi vieni su Skype, vero?
;-)

 ;-)
Who can say?

lot of British people grew up with it.
The sea devils used to terrify me, I'd hide behind my dad when they
were on. Incidentally, I was talking to Francesco on Skype and made
the comment that he sounded like a dalek, to which his reply was
"what's a dalek?".

Indeed. Saying things sound like daleks or are like a/the Tardis is
pretty common in the UK.

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 exercise...
... and as a very enjoyable show!
From the linguistic point of view: the Doctor is not very easy to 
understand, but with a little effort (and sometimes with the help of the 
rewind button) I usually understand about 90 percent of what he says.
But the girl..... oh my god, did a mad scientist surgically remove the 
letter "T" from her brain's speech center? Am I the only one who can't 
understand more than half of what she says? Is that a particular accent from 
a specific region or is it just her?
Anyway, for the Italians of the group I strongly recommend to either buy the 
dvd (BBC has already released the first two dvds containing episoded 1 to 6) 
or get the subtitle files somewhere from the net, because without subtitles 
it is *very* hard to get all the dialogue.
Rincewind

Well, there were 13 episodes in this series.
If you like Doctor Who, I suggest you try downloading / buying some of
the
old stories. There are a LOT of them, as you can imagine from the 26
year
history of the original series. Though many pre-1970 episodes have been
lost.
Rose is from London, and her failure to pronounce the letter "t" is
quite common
in London and the South-East. Do not emulate this.

Incidentally, if you get used to the way Rose speaks, the next
challenge to try would be Michael in "Ultraviolet"

 I was talking to Francesco on Skype
Riesci ad essere su Skype oggi alle 18.00 (17.00 ora di Greenwich)?
Per ora saremmo solo io e Francesco.
Ti aspettiamo!
Tschuess,
Enrico il Pentolaio.

 Ti aspettiamo!
No mic, no party. (smiling face)
Ciao, FB
-- 
Locked from the inside. That can only mean one thing, and I don't know what
it is.
(Murder by Death)

 Per ora saremmo solo io e Francesco.
Forse riesco ad esserci anche io...
Any native speaker?
Bye
Davide

 No mic, no party. (smiling face)
Allora cerca di procurartene uno al più presto!
:-)))
Vabbe', "Polvere" ha detto che sarebbe libero anche il prossimo sabato
pomeriggio. Riesci a procurartene uno per la fine di questa settimana?
Tschuess,
Enrico il Pentolaio.
P.S. Senza il nostro amico Posh sembriamo tutti degli abitanti di
Little Italy, NY.
:-DD

 :-DD
(faccina one can't help it...)
Ciao, FB
-- 
No point in crying over spilt husband.
(The Cheap Detective)

 Any native speaker?
Negativo, got caught by my professor...
D'oh!

 challenge to try would be Michael in "Ultraviolet"
I never heard of it, but a search on IMDB gave me this:
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0169501/
Is it something like a British Buffy?
By the way, I see you have also replied to my Doctor Who post in 
it.cultura.fantascienza and I must say your Italian is very good (and thanks 
for the suggestions: I will look for those episodes).
Rincewind

 for the suggestions: I will look for those episodes).
You might also want to see other regenerations: Planet of the Spiders,
Logopolis, The Caves of Androzani.
"The Pyramids of Mars" is good.