"What's he mean, 'Celtic'?"
"Welsh. You sound welsh." 👀
This is an oddly specific moment in a specific episode of Doctor Who. An episode I haven't seen for years, I might add. I hadn't been on ADHD medication at the time, so most of the episode's plot escapes me. I remember it was "the Pompeii episode" with the Tenth Doctor and Donna, and that's about it.
The context:
The TARDIS has programming that affects how its passengers perceive written and spoken word. Donna notices a written sign and complains that it's in English, to which the Doctor explains that because of the TARDIS, she's actually reading in and speaking Latin. She knows a little bit of Latin, so she tries to say the Latin phrase she knows to a random street vendor.
I assume what happened is whatever she said in Latin was translated to English, because the street vendor responded, "Uhhh...me no speak Celtic...no can do, miss."
Why am I remembering this moment? Well, for the past two weeks, we've been studying ancient Rome in my World Civ class. During the lecture last week, my professor said something that triggered this little memory about Celtics being one of the several peoples that Romans called 'barbarians'.
You know where my priorities must lie, because my first thought was not, "Oh, okay, let's write that down in my class notes." No no. My first thought was, "Oh, THAT'S why the Doctor said that so quickly to Donna! That guy was calling her a barbarian and Donna Noble would NOT have taken that lightly!"
Mhm.
I swear I am a good student.
Even if it doesn't seem like it.
I'm even receiving the Student Success award from my college next week, I'm such a good student.
We just won't tell my teacher that I was thinking about Doctor Who instead of her very engaging lecture in class last week.
