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*** It happened in Norwegian in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday "Doomsday"]]: A location's name is given in Norwegian as "Dårlig Ulv Stranden", which is translated into English as "Bad Wolf Bay". "Dårlig", like "Schlechter" before it, means "bad" in the sense of "faulty" or "broken". And "Stranden" means "beach", one that's easy to cut some slack for, seeing as it is a beach. It would be hard to mishear "Ond" as "Dalek", as the Doctor does "Dårlig".

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*** It happened in Norwegian in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday "Doomsday"]]: A location's name is given in Norwegian as "Dårlig Ulv Stranden", which is translated into English as "Bad Wolf Bay". "Dårlig", like "Schlechter" before it, means "bad" in the sense of "faulty" "faulty", "poor-quality", or "broken"."feeling sick". And "Stranden" means "beach", one that's easy to cut some slack for, seeing as it is a beach. It would be hard to mishear "Ond" as "Dalek", as the Doctor does "Dårlig".
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** Poor translation in the original English version: in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances "The Doctor Dances"]] a German bomb is labelled "Schlechter Wolf", which is an attempt to translate [[ArcWords "Bad Wolf"]] into German. "Schlechter" means "bad" as in "poor-quality" or "mouldy"; the correct German translation would be "Böser Wolf". Then again, the ArcWords were planted throughout by [[spoiler: a working-class RealityWarper]] who was not a native German-speaker.

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** Poor translation in the original English version: in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances "The Doctor Dances"]] a German bomb is labelled "Schlechter Wolf", which is an attempt to translate [[ArcWords "Bad Wolf"]] into German. "Schlechter" means "bad" as in "poor-quality" or "mouldy"; the correct German translation would be "Böser Wolf". Then again, the ArcWords were planted throughout by [[spoiler: a working-class RealityWarper]] who was not a native German-speaker.

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