Benedict Cumberbatch in The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses

[besleybean]

Wot?

Ben Whishaw wiped me out!

[J.P.]

Don't like him. :P

[besleybean]

I love him and thought he was excellent in the role.

[J.P.]

It aslo might be the matter how good I am able to follow the text. It's Shakespeare, you know…

[besleybean]

I am almost embarrassed to comment.

In every Sherlock group I have belonged to, all of the non-native English speakers manage the language so well.

But also of course, many Brits find Shakespeare difficult.

I was raised with it both at home and school and in fact still occasionally study it now...so I'm fortunate to find very few issues with it.

[J.P.]

I've read about a research which said that native speakers need only like 20% of information* to make sense of what is said, while non-native speakers need much better signal-to-noise ratio to understand.

 

*like hearing someone speaking in a noisy place, or not knowing some words.

 

But I digress :D

 

On the other hand there are texts in my own language that I find hardly digestable :P

[besleybean]

Yes, any specialism has it's own language.

Even as Sherlockians, we converse is a way that would be incomprehensible to those outside of the fandom!