I've heard that some speakers of romance languages think English sounds like dogs barking. Irene, what do you say? TTT?

You know you're Sherlocked...

 - When you use the term "Sherlocked" rather than "Obsessed with Sherlock."
 - When you're in public and someone's phone keeps playing Sherlock's text-message beep (no, NOT the one from A Scandal in Belgravia, his usual one (which only makes me more obsessed that I know which beep is his)) and you look up every time expecting to see Sherlock.
 - When you scroll through all 65 pages of a thread called "You know you're obsessed with Sherlock when" before posting on it, and joining the forum because of said thread. Especially when you look through the last thirty pages all in one sitting when you SHOULD be asleep.
 - When you respond to commercials for Elementary by glaring at the TV and telling it, "Elementary, don't talk out loud, you lower the IQ of the entire street." (true story, only it was a car radio. And no, I've not yet seen Elementary, but I felt the need to bash it anyway. Blame it on those pent-up Reichenbach feels.)
 - When your phone's log-in background says "I Am Locked" and your password is 7437
 - When you watch the end of the Reichenbach Fall again just to experience those Reichenbach feels again, even though you complain about them regularly.
 - When you decide to be a good citizen and wait for season 2 to come out legally before watching it, but are so Sherlocked by the time season 3 rolls around that you go "screw this" and watch your friend's illegally pirated copy.
 - When you are desperate for there to be at least one Sherlock reference in the scene between Smaug and Bilbo in The Hobbit
 - When you look at the people around you and try to deduce things about them based on what they're wearing or carrying (But I never tell them any of my deductions. I'm Sherlocked, but I'm not crazy)
 - When you squee inside every time you unSherlock your phone
 - When season three is just too freaking far away >
 - When you get really excited when you realize that you have a skull in your room just like Sherlock (granted its a squirrel skull, not a human one, but still)
 - When you've been reading your complete edition of the Sherlock Holmes stories at school but stop when you reach The Final Problem, because you know you're going to start bawling, and because you have a set tradition of reading the story and them watching the corresponding clips from The Reichenbach Fall immediately after.

(I'm new here by the way, hi. )

Jayie wrote:

You know you're Sherlocked...

� - When your phone's log-in background says "I Am Locked" and your password is 7437

Guilty!

And I'm still noticing striped jersies EVERYWHERE.  I'm even wearing one today - cause I like to imagine I'm John, trying to muddle through my colourless (notice my Brit spelling ), boring, everyday work life while waiting for that 'one more miracle', 'just for me'. 

Welcome Jayie.  We're very supportive of obessions here.

The striped jumper syndrome. Me too. And the purple shirt syndrome as a side effect.

ancientsgate wrote:

veecee wrote:

I've heard that some speakers of romance languages think English sounds like dogs barking. Irene, what do you say? TTT?

Look at this video someone made and posted on you tube, English in 24 accents. The kid has quite an ear. Anyway, I think it'd be really really hard to generalize about how English sounds-- these 24 accents are just the tip of the iceberg. I'll bet I could find almost that many just in the US. Could be 24 different breeds of dogs, I suppose, lol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dABo_DCIdpM

Oh! That was hilarious. He's amazing. He should be a dialect coach for the "Americans" on Cabin Pressure. He really should do a cleaned up version, though.

Thanks.

KeepersPrice wrote:

And I'm still noticing striped jersies EVERYWHERE.  I'm even wearing one today - cause I like to imagine I'm John, trying to muddle through my colourless (notice my Brit spelling ), boring, everyday work life while waiting for that 'one more miracle', 'just for me'. 

Welcome Jayie.  We're very supportive of obessions here.

Can we establish what we mean by "jerseys"? T-shirts? Sweaters (jumpers)? Or just light knit shirts?

Yeah, I have a little bit of OCD. Wanna make something of it? 

BBean is correct. Jerseys are so called because they were originally knitted in Jersey, which is one of the UK's Channel Islands. There is another style of sweater called a Guernsey which is from another of the Channel Islands. Both of these were originally fishermen's sweaters. Then there are Arran and Fairisle (Shetland) jumpers both from Scotland. In addition there are Icelandic and Scandinavian style sweaters too.

I bet you wish you hadn't asked now! 

besleybean wrote:

Now for me:
Jerseys/Jumpers/Pullovers/Sweaters are all the same thing and should really be made from wool, tho of course many are modern textiles. But they are usually longsleeved.
A tshirt is short sleeved and generally cotton.

Americans would never call a sweater anything but a sweater. Sweaters can be pullovers or cardigans (button up the front). Wool, cashmere, cotton, acrylic, lots of different fabrics could be used. Some are thickly knit, some very fine, but they're sweaters.

I rarely hear the word jumper used anymore for a woman's sleeveless dress. They're just called dresses these days, at least, I think so.

besleybean wrote:

Now for me:
That female garment is either a dress/frock or gown...nothing at all to do with a jumper.
Even a woollen dress, is still a dress!

When I was a kid in the 60s, those little pullover sleeveless dresses we wore to school were jumpers-- you still see that kind of little dress in some private school uniforms for girls-- worn over a blouse or jersey shirt or turtleneck, with tights or knee socks on the legs. But as I said, no matter the fabric, or whether for little girls or Mrs. Donald Trump, I think those little jumper-style dresses are now just called sleeveless dresses. I haven't heard the jumper term in decades.

We would never use the word frock. Ever, for anything. I know what a frock is, because I do a lot of reading, but I have never heard the frock word spoken or seen it in clothing stores or catalogs in this country. And a gown is what you wear to bed, a night gown, unless it's a floor-length formal affair, an evening gown. Everything else is just a dress.