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This seems to bug you, Icecreamdif. Isn't the por old man allowed to have any fun? [[User:Boblipton|Boblipton]] 12:58, September 28, 2011 (UTC) | This seems to bug you, Icecreamdif. Isn't the por old man allowed to have any fun? [[User:Boblipton|Boblipton]] 12:58, September 28, 2011 (UTC) | ||
I just had lunch with a friend and we discussed this episode and this debate. | I just had lunch with a friend and we discussed this episode and this debate. She mentioned that her sister teaches her children sign language well before they are verbal. Not only could her older boy, now five, identify and point out ceiling fans before he could sit up, but he managed to outwit her before she could talk: he wanted to play, she told him not until he had finished eating, whereupon he signed that he was done eating. [[User:Boblipton|Boblipton]] 19:39, September 28, 2011 (UTC) | ||
It doesn't bug me, I just don't believe the Doctor. The TARDIS translates languages, not just whatever somebody happens to be thinking, and babies obviously don't have languages. For the Doctor's own telepathy to work, he has to make physical contact with someone unless they too are telepathic. This, and the fact that nobody else who has been in the TARDIS seems to understand babies, and the fact that the Doctor has never demonstrated this ability before would seem to indicate that he is joking. It is a funny joke, especially with Craig who actually believed him, but it is still just a joke.[[User:Icecreamdif|Icecreamdif]] 19:46, September 28, 2011 (UTC) | It doesn't bug me, I just don't believe the Doctor. The TARDIS translates languages, not just whatever somebody happens to be thinking, and babies obviously don't have languages. For the Doctor's own telepathy to work, he has to make physical contact with someone unless they too are telepathic. This, and the fact that nobody else who has been in the TARDIS seems to understand babies, and the fact that the Doctor has never demonstrated this ability before would seem to indicate that he is joking. It is a funny joke, especially with Craig who actually believed him, but it is still just a joke.[[User:Icecreamdif|Icecreamdif]] 19:46, September 28, 2011 (UTC) | ||
Maybe all humans are telepathic as babies and we lose this ablility once we learn how to speak. This would allow the Doctor to communicate with babies without physical contact. [[Special:Contributions/69.110.255.179|69.110.255.179]] 19:18, October 1, 2011 (UTC) | |||
