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No, everything was in english... But I think it was "the final problem", since nothing was magically translated anymore!

I disabled the program that haunts the posts... I'm writing this in english, I hope it will be like this when you receive!!!

Oh yeah, I agree with that. If we're talking about Lestrade as a hypothetical real person, that's a whole different debate. This is the best forum for being contrary.

That's what I would have assumed. But somewhere around here -- OK, on the first page of this thread, Bakerstreet Irregular quoted a short piece (this one: http://www.mayhematics.com/f/lestrade.htm ) in which an elderly Lestrade explains that his father and grandfather "always gave the name the Cockney pronunciation 'Lest-raid' rather than 'Le-strahd' as people educated in French tend to read it." The author is one G. P. Jellis, who I suspect to be the same individual who published a games journal ( https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/mathematical-gazette/article/games-and-puzzles-journal-edited-and-published-by-g-p-jellis-99-bohemia-road-st-leonards-on-sea-tn37-6rs-5-for-6-successive-issues-issn-0267369-x/9E7298D9682DA0C615DE6679930084BF ) from a UK address, so I would assume s/he is correct about Cockneys using a different pronunciation. So I would consider that to be a definite possibility for how the "real" Inspector pronounced his name. But that's in the original Holmes universe. By the 21st century in the BBC Sherlock universe, Greg's family has apparently re-frenchified their name.

I never knew I was so fluent in Portuguese! Thanks for retrieving the original English post, Caya. I suspect your theory is correct, Rebecca. With any luck, you'll be able to figure out how to turn off the Happy Translator. In the meantime, as long as Caya can retrieve your English posts from her email notifications, we'll know what you said.