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H hope i'm not too late or if you still even need help with it but this link should teach you everything you need to know. Hope it helps.
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Thank you :-D
I'm going to favorite the site and use it for reference on my bf Christmas card lol
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Hi, I have translated quite a lot of words according to your guide (but still haven´t moved on to sentences) and I think it´s pretty awesome! I cannot imagine how much time and energy it must have cost you. There is just a little problem I have had, I wanted to translate a word with double consonant but i didn´t know how to do it. I tried doing it the same way as double vowels in your Gallifreyan Writer, but it did some weird stuff and didn´t even look close to what I wanted to write. So what would you do with double consonants? And maybe update the Writer so that it is possible to make two lines at a time. Please do so soon, because I am too lazy to draw it by hand
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What do you do with double letter consonants? (e.g. 'ss')
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Is this what they use in Doctor Who, or is it made up, but looks like the real thing?
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The Gallifreyan in Doctor Who is just cool looking circles, it doesn´t make sense, so fans made their own alphabets
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With many typos I got: In a perfect relationship a girl should not be forced to choose between a man and her cuttlefish
(In a perfekt reltionshp a birl should net be chforse to choso betwe[e]n her man anr her kuttlefsh)
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OMG Thank you sooooooo much for making this!!!!!! 
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You're Awesome !
Love your imaginative solution to the Gallifreyan alphabet.
The resulting glyphs are remarkably detailed and mysterious.
You have my admiration !
~ M.
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You are crazy to work this all out... fantastic, brilliant and very, very cool... but crazy! How much of this could be used to translate what we see on the show?
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OMG do you think the Doctor's name could be translated using this!?! Someone needs to do that!
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could you please add a demonstration on how to write the fourth row (th, y, z, ng, qu, x). and how do you write N
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Just stumbled across this by accident, but it's awesome! Thanks man!
...Now I can drive my friends crazy with writing things in Gallifreyan...!
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Hi again! I had another look at your work on Gallifreyan writing, because I have a strange problem (may not be the best word for a part of a highly impractical hobby 
And this all because I mentioned (going to mention in my Madoka/Fringe crossover fan fiction) a certain box marked with alien letters...
Yes, I'm nuts
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How does punctuation work? I have seen your version of how it looks, but couldn't you try to make like a sentence that included punctuation in some way so we could see where and how it should be?
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Can it be used to translate the Doctor's Name?
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how can I open the Gallifreyan writer? for me it is a ZIP file! HELP!!!
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use a unarchiever. if you have mac it come pre installed.
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I have windows 7 and I have no idea what's an unarchiver
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Okay, one thing I do not quite understand..
You said that if a vowel is following a consonant, it will be attached to it. However in the word 'ties' the 'i' is not attached to the 't'.. why is that?
The same goes for the 'e' following the 'r' in the word 'are'.
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Something I've noticed is that vowels tend not to be place on letters that could connect two words.
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On the subject of your current extent of Gallifreyan math, I feel that the Time Lords are probably insulted that someone who's managed to flesh out their language and numbers cannot get their math past calculus. It'd be like a Neanderthal trying to use metal, the superior party whom uses the tool at it's height would be insulted at the pitiful attempts.
Of course, for all we know, the Time Lords are wishing for you to learn high level physics equations so you can put their everyday mathematical concepts into a fully-fleshed out tribute
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Awesome guide - I've been playing around with the writer program a lot recently. Two thoughts on it (take them as you will). One, an undo button would be bliss and two, I can't work out how to do double letters with the writer. Regardless though, the work you put into it is astonishing.
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Does it matter how long the lines are, because at the end of your sentance some lines are stopped inside the work circle but others keep going, how to you know how long to make them? Otherwise this was a lot of help!
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I don't know if you check this often, but I was wondering if the placement of the letters in the word is just done by how it looks? From what I'm understanding you start at the bottom and go counter clockwise like the sentence itself, but if the word is short it doesn't seem to matter where the letters go? Right?
Also, how would you write "i"?
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As I write it, it does matter. A two-letter word would have the first at the bottom and the second at the top, for example, which is counter-clockwise. So I don't think it's simply aesthetic - but that's just me.
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It might be cool in the future, if the writer/translator were done as an HTML5+ browser addon - so themes & skins could easily be added or used with them, along with some form of Sci-Fi chat app. And Gallifreyan translation would be so awesome with multilingual support for users in other countries and/or planets!
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I can't figure out how to use the translator 
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If you're using PC you just download the Translator file, open it in a program like winrar or jzip, select the only folder, then hit extract and choose where you want it saved. Then open the folder wherever you saved it, and double click the program in it to open the program. Hope that helps. If you're using Mac, sorry, can't help you. And I'm pretty sure you're not using Linux because you'd already know all this if you were
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I'm using a Mac O___O
I think I might be able to figure it out. Thanks, though ^^
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Hi I have a couple of questions. I think I wrote this a couple months back, but couldn't find it in the comments. So I want to get a tattoo of my twins' names in Galifreyan. I want it to say Raillee Rose Thibodeaux Kyla Mei Thibodeaux followed by their birthdate.
First question: Would I do each name as a complete sentence? Like have "Railee Rose Thibodeaux" be one sentence, "Kyla Mei" be another and the birthdate be a third and then connect all three? Or would it be one long sentence?
Second Question: I know the words are supposed to be phonetic- but how do you denote whether a vowel is supposed to be short or long? Also, what kind of system do we use when translating foreign words? Do we use their phonetics or our own? For example "Mei" is Japanese. It is also phonetically spoken. "e" makes an "eh" sound while "i" makes a "ee" sound. When you put these too sounds one after another it sounds similiar to "aye", though very subtley different. Do I use asian phoenetics or english?
Third Question: Is there some kind of symbol for silent letters? So far I'm having to change the names so much that they will look like "Rilee Roz Tibado" which feels wrong to me? I mean there has to be something right? Otherwise you wouldn't be able to distinguish "Know" from "no"...?
Thank you for your time, I appreciate it. Beautiful work you've done with the alphabet.
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This is not a language of its own, so there is no need to worry about phonetics. Just take a letter and find the corresponding 'Gallifreyan' symbol. The only problems you are going to run into are 'th' as one symbol and the large string of vowels in their names. Also remember that this script is not canonical, meaning that it is not sanctioned by the BBC as being an accurate representation of the language or script from the show. Although simple and beautiful, the script was created by a fan and not seen on the show itself.
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I have the write program on my computer and I absolutely love it! So much better than having to do everything in paint -.-
I had just one suggestion! Maybe you could add a undo/redo button because whenever you make a mistake you have to start all over again and that's kind of annoying.. :/ So I hope you could do that! Thanks anyway!
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I was trying to save my translation of a sentence from the translator program and when I hit tab it said "Your image has been saved to the folder that contains this program." I was curious if maybe I am just missing the folder or if there is a trick to finding it. Any help y'all can give me I'd appreciate it.
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if you're on a Mac i think it's in the Applications folder, not sure about other computers though...
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I have the translator but when i hit tab to save my file, it says "your image has been saved to the folder that contains this program.' and then I can't find the folder or the file of my saved translation. If you can tell me where it might be, I'd appreciate it.
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