Big Finish Doctor Who/Recap/035 ...ish: Difference between revisions

The Sixth Doctor takes Peri to a lexicographer's convention, where his old friend Professor Osefa is about to unveil the Lexicon, the most comprehensive dictionary of the English language ever written. While Peri hits it off with a charming young logophile, the Doctor discovers something far less pleasant-- Osefa has seemingly committed suicide in a locked room, but a suicide note riddled with misspellings and errors raises the Doctor's suspicions. Further investigation reveals that the professor may have stumbled across a word with the power to destroy language and meaning forever.

 

* [[Artificial Intelligence]]: Book {{spoiler|and Warren.}}

* [[Brown Note]]: The ''...ish'' causes anyone who hears it to become mentally "stuck" on it and repeat it over and over.

* [[Creation Myth]]: The natives of Xenocubis believe that the echoes of the Big Bang created the "first great Word," which gave rise to language. All languages are thus a corruption or fragment of the original Word.

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The ''...ish'' is a living, sentient word which literally eats meaning and can reduce humans to babbling zombies just by being spoken in their vicinity. {{spoiler|In the end, though, it just wants to go home, which makes it one of the milder examples of this trope.}}

* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: Inevitable in a story about word-lovers. Six takes particular pleasure in showing off his vocabulary.

* [[Sound Effect Bleep]]: Used in story as a means to keep Peri and Bob from hearing ''...ish''

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