Thread: TARDIS or Tardis or tardis?
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26th Oct 2011, 1:49 PM #1
TARDIS or Tardis or tardis?
Over on the Vervoid thread, Ant Cox is berating the use of Tardis rather than TARDIS as the way of spelling the name of the Doctor's time ship. But which is right, hmm?
So I ask you, which one do you find acceptable? How do you write the name of Gallifreyan Time Travel capsules?
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26th Oct 2011, 1:55 PM #2
Can open ... worms everywhere!
I've been investigating this topic recently; some interesting stuff on Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym_and_initialism
Should it -- like laser -- perhaps even be written as 'tardis' (lower case) nowadays ...?
*awaits bombardment of wrath*
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26th Oct 2011, 2:11 PM #3
Personally I still write TARDIS but as all the word is descriptive of a vessel type rather than just being the name of only the Doctor's ship if it's not treated as an acronym it should probably be tardis. Although as it's the last of it's kind in existence* it could revert back to being unique name as Susan originally suggested back in the days when the Doctor used to refer to it as "the ship" in which case Tardis would be a valid alternative.
*(or is it? We never found out what the Master did with his TARDIS before wiping his own memory, infact has he had one since the time he was exterminated on Skaro?)
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26th Oct 2011, 2:11 PM #4
All Caps (or should that be ALL CAPS) is how I like it!
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26th Oct 2011, 2:12 PM #5
And another can of worms....should it be referred to as The TARDIS, or just TARDIS??
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26th Oct 2011, 2:23 PM #6
I must admit that I always used to write it as TARDIS but I seemed to be one of the few that did that so I often just use Tardis these days.
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26th Oct 2011, 2:42 PM #7
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I've been conditioned thanks to the novels and comics of spelling it in capitals.
I don't like change!
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26th Oct 2011, 3:02 PM #8And another can of worms....should it be referred to as The TARDIS, or just TARDIS??
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26th Oct 2011, 3:03 PM #9
I've always gone for TARDIS - indeed I've commented before on how much it p!$$es me off when the Radio Times uses the Tardis version.
Bazinga !
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26th Oct 2011, 3:17 PM #10
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If spelling TARDIS in capitals is good enough for Ian Levine, then it's good enough for me. But then he spells every third word in capitals, so what do I know?
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26th Oct 2011, 4:05 PM #11
So if TARDIS becomes Tardis or tardis should UNIT become unit?
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26th Oct 2011, 4:31 PM #12
NEVER !!!
Bazinga !
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26th Oct 2011, 4:35 PM #13
I think I'm correct in saying I always put TARDIS & probably always will do. And likewise UNIT will always be written so.
If you think about it though it doesn't really work as acronym does it?
I mean if you are talking about UNIT then saying it in full or as an acronym works, but TARDIS doesn't.
E.G, "I worked for UNIT" or "I worked for United Intelligence Task Force" works but "I worked on the TARDIS" is fine where as the full version, "I worked on the Time And Relative Dimension In Space" is just nonsense.
Therefore it probably should be Tardis as it seems to have become the name of the Police box shaped time & space vehicle that the Doctor travels in.
Food for thought.
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26th Oct 2011, 4:49 PM #14
Dr Who fans, they worry so much!
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26th Oct 2011, 4:54 PM #15
It's TARDIS!
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26th Oct 2011, 4:54 PM #16Dr Who fans, they worry so much!
And that's DOCTOR Who.
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26th Oct 2011, 5:25 PM #17
if we're going with the OED then it would have to be Tardis.
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26th Oct 2011, 5:39 PM #18
This is getting a bit anal now, but as UNIT is a single entity (like NATO or the [The?] EU) in British English it's UNIT, American English it's U.N.I.T. and in Australian English "that posh Pom bastard with the 'tache and his mates".
TARDIS is tardis if we're talking about one of the hundreds of time machines made on Gallifrey, the (The?) TARDIS or T.A.R.D.I.S. if it's specifically the name of the one Doctor Who travels in.
Or something. Agh, I don't really know.
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26th Oct 2011, 6:26 PM #19
I think I'll stay out of this...
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26th Oct 2011, 6:28 PM #20
I see. You poke the hornets nest but let everyone else get stung!
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26th Oct 2011, 6:41 PM #21
Indeed, Monitor - indeed!
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26th Oct 2011, 7:06 PM #22
Puts a different spin on part one of The Chase though:
DALEKS: "Tardis! Tardis! Tardis!"
BARBARA: "Doctor! They said TARDIS!"
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27th Oct 2011, 9:36 AM #23
It'll always be TARDIS to me, and I'll always be annoyed when I see it written otherwise.
As for Doctor/Dr Who: it should never be abbreviated to Dr as the word "Doctor" in the name Doctor Who has become a pronoun, and you can't abbreviate a pronoun in the same way you can a title that goes before someone's name.
You wouldn't go to the cinema to see Cit. Kane or C. Kane, for example. And you wouldn't turn on ITV to watch Dr Martin.
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27th Oct 2011, 10:51 AM #24
It's definitely TARDIS, for me - it's an acronym, so it has to be. However, that is of course taking a prescriptive, rather than a descriptive view of language...
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27th Oct 2011, 3:35 PM #25
The Tardis - and all the other tardises - have been on Nato, Unit and the USAF's radar for some time now.
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