BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / Languages

**Posted by Schmiezi** April 5, 2013 9:04 pm

Thumbs up to us non-native-speakers!

Really, I think the language here is wonderful. I've seen German forums where Germans wrote so badly I couldn't stand it.
And even though here there are mistakes and minor misunderstandings sometimes, you can see that everyone is trying to keep it at this level.

So, actually it needs to read: Thumbs up to everyone!

**Posted by besleybean** April 5, 2013 9:16 pm

But native Brits are all just bowled over by the high standard of the English of non Brits.
You all put us to shame!

**Posted by Schmiezi** April 5, 2013 9:23 pm

besleybean wrote:
But native Brits are all just bowled over by the high standard of the English of non Brits.
You all put us to shame!

Yeah, you know, in reality this is all part of one hell of a conspiracy. We all don't really care about Sherlock, we're just hanging around to put shame on you folks!

**Posted by saturnR** April 5, 2013 9:42 pm

Am yet to come across a non-roman alphabet based writing system in this thread. Let's have some Thai script, Japanese kana, Korean hangul, Indian sanscrit, Chinese hanzi, Russian cyrillic script, Greek alphabet, Hebrew alephbet, Arabic abjad, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Braille, Blissymbols, Tengwar, digial binary, and morse code.

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**Posted by Davina** April 5, 2013 10:57 pm

Runes! Cuneiform! And, perhaps, a little Elvish?

**Posted by saturnR** April 6, 2013 4:38 am

**Posted by Davina** April 6, 2013 5:37 am

Oh gosh! Now I'll have to get my Elvish dictionary out!
Any ancient Sumerians out there ready to make my day?

**Posted by saturnR** April 6, 2013 6:45 am

That was from wikipedia; article on Tengwar - the font found in the LOTR. passage is a transcription from universal declaration of human rights. Obviously I can't read Tenwar myself but I was thinking, if the actual Universal Declaration was written in Tengwar, people might take it more seriously than they do now

**Posted by besleybean** April 6, 2013 7:00 am

We could only hope and yes, it's beautiful.

**Posted by veecee** April 6, 2013 6:57 pm

besleybean wrote:
But native Brits are all just bowled over by the high standard of the English of non Brits.
You all put us to shame!

Including of us Americans?

**Posted by Davina** April 7, 2013 12:47 am

Including of you of course!

**Posted by veecee** April 7, 2013 4:51 am

Thank you. I thinks we talks good here, too.

**Posted by Davina** April 7, 2013 4:58 am

I am of the thinking that you have correctness.

**Posted by veecee** April 8, 2013 12:34 am

Davina wrote:
I am of the thinking that you have correctness.

**Posted by saturnR** April 8, 2013 8:27 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os-nbjYOy90

Hamish & Andy trying to explain what it means to "have your poo in the one sock"; eventually they do work it out but listen to the lead up to their er... epiphany. Be prepared to laugh you a$$ off

**Posted by spanisherlock** October 24, 2013 11:03 pm

Irene Adler wrote:
Pero... ¿cómo me he perdido yo este hilo?

Me encanta, muchas gracias, Molly. Ya estaba a punto de olvidarme de cómo se teclean los acentos y las eñes españolas

Una fan española, que alegria, hola!!!!! En el canal Neox de Antena 3 emiten la serie los miércoles por la noche, ¿la sigues? la primera vez que me enteré de la serie fue gracias al canal de televisión catalán TV3 pero no le hice ningúm caso, creí que era una serie más de sherlock...pero no, me equivoqué, ahora estoy tan enganchada por su buena calidad audiovisual, por el personaje , el actor y las tramas que incluso me he registrado en este foro, y no me registraba en uno desde hacia muchísimo tiempo.

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**Posted by spanisherlock** October 24, 2013 11:27 pm

I'm from Spain and I live in Catalonia, where we speak two languages Spanish and Catalan. TV series "Sherlock" was broadcasted on the Catalan public TV channel and as we usually use dubbing for all foreign films and series, Sherlock also speaks Catalan!!! ;)

SHERLOCK -TV3 (click here)

**Posted by FluteLocked** October 25, 2013 12:31 pm

Spanisherlock: Ich habe kein leider kein wort verstanden. ...
(Sadly, I didn't understand anything ..)

Tolle Idee, dieser Thread! (Thread...gibt's ein deutsches Wort dafür? )
Ich finde es sehr interessant auszuprobieren wieviel ich von anderen Sprachen verstehe.
Und jetzt komme ich mit gerade sehr komisch vor, weil ich auf deutsch schreibe. .. ;)

@SusiGo:
Lustig, dass du Saumagen erwähnt hast!
(Ein paar Seiten vorher)
Helmut Kohl bestellte ihn immer bei dem Metzger in dem Dorf (eigentlich eine Stadt) in dem ich wohne!

**Posted by Ormond Sacker** October 25, 2013 1:44 pm

Okay lad os se om der er an anden Dansk talende, eller i hvert fald skrivende, der forstår det her

**Posted by Mattlocked** October 25, 2013 2:08 pm

Ormond Sacker wrote:
Okay lad os se om der er an anden Dansk talende, eller i hvert fald skrivende, der forstår det her

Okay, let's see if there is another Danish speaking, or ....., who understands this here.

(Danish and Swedish are quite similar to German, and I learned a bit Swedish, so I tried..... )