Lalarun

I think it's quite common. For example there are all these words ending in -ismus, such as Kapitalismus, Extremismus, Autismus, Kommunismus, Impressionismus, but also Zirkus, Campus, Exitus (and probably many more). There might be exceptions though. It also doesn't really work for one syllable words with an au in the middle, such as Haus (neuter) or Maus (female). I guess that's because "au" is a diphtong on its own. They both look masculine to me, but then I learned Latin as well as Greek. So -us and -os are both endings I associate with masculine nouns. I wondered about the goddess now because of the name ending in -os despite being female and found that in Greek it's apparently spelled Ἠώς. The typial masuline ending is -ος though. There are different o-sounds. I guess that makes a difference, only that you cannot distinguish these two in Latin letters. But then Euros (the male God) is Εὖρος, with the typical masculine ending. So that wouldn't really explain their name choice for a female child (like it works with the name Eos). I'm not an expert on this though, so there could be other factors playing a role in all of this. That's just what I tried to figure out from my knowledge of Greek I remember from highschool.

I haven't found a video (but think I have seen him mention it in one too, but don't remember where), but here's an interview with BC with this quote: article link: http://www.bigissue.com/features/interviews/3405/benedict-cumberbatch-interview-i-went-to-public-school-but-im-not-a-public Maybe he said the same in another interview (video)?

Since I have recently read The Sign of Four, I remembered Holmes made some comments about her during the story. I looked the scenes I remembered up to get them literally, so here are a few quotes: Directly addressed at her: Conversation with Watson: Another conversation with Watson at the end of the story:

I don't usually do that in general unless I have spent too much time watching/reading stuff in English for a while at the same day, but I always do that with Sherlock quotes, just because they are in my mind that way. So it can be that I suddenly think of a Sherlock quote in a situation, switch to English for that one and then the rest of the conversations goes on in German. Probably obsession too...

Hello and welcome, MaryJane! It's sad that you missed TAB on TV, but there will be a second chance some day. If I find out about a new air date here, I will let you know (unless you haven't found another source until then and don't need to know that anymore).

I think I know what you mean, Bluebell. It probably has to do that the sound of the voices is different and this alone influences the mood somehow independent from the language, just the voices. Then there are those little differences in pronunciation/stress of specific phrases. That can have to do with the language (sentences sometimes are just stressed differently in different languages), but also with the acting and if the dubbing is able to keep for example the emotional part of some sentences like the actor did. I guess it can change the feeling about some things as well. Another reason might be the feeling regarding specific words or the associations with them. I cannot really explain it, it's just that the choice of words is important too and depending on what they decide to use as a German word for an English one it can lead to a different view of certain scenes and so changes the mood of them.

Just continuing in another post since I wasn't allowed to quote that much in one reply: Yes, it's a control thing for me most of the time. If I have the control and can stop something any time I want to, I can handle it better because I know I can turn it off if it annoys me. I go to the same hair saloon for many years now. They know me and know I am not a chatty person, so they stay silent. I still don't like it though... Just reminds me of my appointment there in a few days. Me too. It took my parents a while, but when I was a teenager I was finally "allowed to" stay at home. It was still terrible when the relatives came together at our home. I spent many of those meetings in my room, reading or playing something on my own. I usually don't share my problems but rather try to solve it by myself. I think I do that for various reasons. I don't want to bother others with my problems, I don't like to share those problems with them because I don't want them to know about them and I always wonder if it would actually help to tell them about a specific problem. Could they help me with it or would it just bother and worry them as well? I was very relieved when I finally discovered the term sensory overload. It put me in the right direction for further research and I agree that knowing makes things easier. It helped me to understand a part of me better. It even somehow made me more comfortable with doing stuff that is good for me and not just trying to stand it, so I take care of the possiblity to leave when I feel like it with feeling less pressure of having to stand it. What about T-shirt for that too? Or you've got it? Good idea.

Me too. But I still hate buying clothes in shops the most of all things I have to buy. Yes, that's probably why I don't mind supermarkets as much as smaller clothes shops for example. But then I don't like some of them either due to other reasons (like the annoying background music and advertising jingles). Okay, clothes shops have that background music too, so one more reason to hate them. I think my favourite shops are book stores. It's usually silent and as long as there's no shop assistant around to ask what you are looking for you can look around all by yourself. Even avoiding the shop assisitant's attention is easy by reading a bit in an interesting book. I can imagine since I experience the same. I am usually the one who wants others to stop listening to music that is too loud for me. Well, to contribute something that has actually to do with the thread title: I spent four hours in a car today with two other people arguing about the volume of the music. Furthermore I was in a crowded restaurant with other people trying to have boring conversations with me. I was happy when I finally was at home. In addition to that I am annoyed by tones no one else hears. It usually leads to conversations like this: Me: What is this noise? Where does it come from? Other person: I don't hear it. Oh, you better should avoid speaking about some things to me when you don't want to turn me into a person who is suddenly not so shy anymore and goes on and on in a conversation. People seem to be confused by that. The volume at those places is really awful. It is so exhausting and painful that I usually leave (or avoid) them even more than I would if the music were acceptable. I guess I am doing stuff in my mind too often then. I hate being disturbed while I am doing it. The result is either 1. I am so absorbed that I don't even realize someonewas talking to me (or it takes an unusual amount of time to realize it) or 2. I am answering, but try to keep it as short as possible to avoid a further conversation with the person. I have to say that I do that especially when I am outside on a walk and so often miss people's greetings because I don't pay attention. They don't like that. Maybe I should wear a "Do not disturb" shirt while I am on such walks like that one: That would probably rather work than one with "Do not disturb, am inside mind palace, will surface eventually." although I like that phrase. I don't know how well-known the phrase mind palace is for people who don't watch Sherlock. Hmm, my mum has watched all Sherlock episodes, so I could try that explanation too.

Yes, even in the trailer just before it started today they spread spoilers. Well, bit not good. Or rather very much not good. It's so annoying. I mean, it cannot be that difficult, can it? I don't think John has a new voice (I haven't seen the dubbed one for a while, but it still sounds like Howard Wolowitz from The Big Bang Theory like it did before (that's one of the reason I don't like his German voice, I just cannot take him seriously somehow because of that association)). I hate those changes too when I notice them by the way. Wichtel :lol: I agree that was very funny. Easter elf, according to the air date? :D

Thanks for the tip, J.P.! I have once watched a movie about Temple Grandin's life (called Temple Grandin) that I found interesting, so I think this could be interesting for me as well.

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Welcome, Bluebell! I also looked Sherlock up after seeing The Hobbit and then realized that both Martin and Benedict play together in it. I remember watching bits of it before when I randomly switched TV programmes, but never really watched one episode as a whole. Apart from the channel I have to say that the times when it aired in Germany were usually later in the evening which is not so good when it's not weekend. But after watching The Hobbit I finally watched a re-run of some episodes and bought the DVDs afterwards. The special airs on 28.03.16, 21:45 at ARD. Here's their announcement: http://www.daserste.de/unterhaltung/film/sherlock/die-braut-des-grauens-sendetermin-100.html

I was searching for Sherlock-related stuff via google and somehow came across this forum. I am the same about forums and other sites where you can register. I read and check it for a while until I am rather sure I am going to really use it and that I am not just "there", but never contribute anything.

Okay, I finally managed to sort my thoughts about the special a bit and afterwards reading the whole thread. I found it a bit funny when it finally turned out that the Victorian stuff was in Sherlock's mind palace because although I had read that the special would be something on its own I had a dream about the special a few nights before the special aired where Victorian scenes were only in Sherlock's mind palace to solve a problem. In that dream I wasn't able to find out what the problem was he wanted to solve and after I woke up I thought: "That's a bit crazy, why would it have to be a Victorian setting? It's probably not going to happen." The reason of the dream probably was the title of the special which I somehow connected with Mary shooting Sherlock in a wedding dress in his mind palace. In general the dream was so confusing and I wasn't sure how they could make that really happen that I thought that cannot come true, but then it actually happened! But it really was confusing, I have to say, even when it made more sense than my dream. As it seems I have missed a lot, so it was interesting reading all your thoughts and understanding a bit more through that. I agree with this theory. Moriarty is dead, but there are still many possibilities of how his "work" can be continued. What do you mean with "was dieing anyway" regarding Moriarty? I get it with the bride, but Moriarty? I think you don't mean the obvious that Moriarty would die when the bomb at the pool would have exploded. Is there anything I have missed? ... especially since the word "virus" (in the sense of a disease organism) was not used until 1898. I didn't know about since when the word was used, but I guessed that something is wrong nevertheless. The expression just seemed to be quite out of place for the time. But the first moment when I started to wonder was when Sherlock once said "he" instead of "she" and is then corrected. I think that scene was earlier than the "virus in the data" one. I am still thinking about what all those representations mean and what that says about Sherlock himself. But during the first time it was just too much to deal with at the same time, especially when you don't even have the information that it's just going on in Sherlock's mind for a long time. I agree that the Diogenes Club scene was quite funny. But besides that John was so bad at it I found the idea of using sign language there quite funny and interesting in general. It can be, but I think it also can be that Anderson only represents his (former) job in Sherlock's mind palace without meaning that he actually works with the Scotland Yard again. Thanks for the link. I'll read it soon and think it will make some things clearer. Interesting observation about Sherlock and Moriarty. I see it now, but haven't thought about it that way before.

I never really thought about the underwear of anyone in the show, but like you I always wonder about that part of the Palace scene. I mean, they probably haven't asked him or anything like that (at least I cannot imagine it, it would be a bit too weird, I guess), so they just had to pack something based on what they think what he wears under the sheet. But then I think for the Palace guys this question doesn't really matter, it's just about having some appropriate clothes for Sherlock and packing no underwear wouldn't matter anymore if Sherlock wore trousers (which they brought).

Wow, it is so soon now... I still can't believe how excited I am, I am not that long into the fandom and now this happens. My first time really waiting for an episode of the show.

The description part is different for me. I don't try to apply the look of Sherlock and John from the series to their look in the books. They don't look like that in my mind. It might have to do with the fact that I had already read one canon story before I knew the series and so already have a picture of "my" canon Sherlock and John in my mind that doesn't change anymore. Furthermore my brain doesn't seem to make that connection automatically (regarding the appearance of the characters) and so I see the series and the books as two different things although there are of course many references in the series and it is still about Sherlock and John. I don't really know why it is like this, but I think I can live with two different Sherlocks and Johns in my mind. I agree with you about the Rache/Rachel thing and the references. When I read it last fall I forgot it was the backstory and I thought I was reading a completely different story until got back to London. I had that feeling of a different story, too. I wonder how someone who doesn't know the whole story would like or understand just that part on its own. I think most of it would work as a separate story as well, only that the end would be missing (how Hope finally got his revenge and then was arrested). But as a middle part it was a bit too long for me only to explain Hope's backstory. It could have been shorter. You are not the only one. I also had to look up the Latin although I learned it at school.

Great that you found it. The description sounded interesting. Now I have read it and I think it is a really good post.

Hello! Interesting... I dislike talking on the phone too, but I dislike texting even more. Maybe that has more to do with the mechanics of it, though, because I don't mind email. I like being able to edit what I'm saying! :D I also prefer emails to texting, but texting is still better than using the telephone for me. Yes, it is great that you can edit what you are saying. That is an advantage, but sometimes it also makes me slow in responsing because I re-read my texts again and again, trying to figure out what I could make better. I sometimes do that explaining, too. It is really helpful. When I was at school one of my maths teachers said: "If you want to check if you have really understood everything, give someone a lesson about the topic and see if you can do it." That method definitively works for me.

The first thing I related to when I started to watch Sherlock was the introduction scene between Sherlock and John. Like Sherlock I prefer texting to the telephone (I avoid telephone calls as much as possible), sometimes can be very silent (he doesn't speak for days on end) and playing music definitively helps me to think. I don't play the violin, though, but the accordion. I think most of that applies to me, too. To some people, especially when I am not familiar with them I tend to come across a bit Molly-like. But with other people I am more Sherlock-like. But I still don't let everything out that I think. It's a bit of an inner Sherlock who doesn't show because I suppress it. For example I tend to correct other people's grammar in my head a lot, but almost never say anything about it. I sometimes have that, too. I can go on and on and at one moment the other person doesn't follow anymore. But that's probably a moment when I am already in a kind of monologue-mode and don't even realize if that's the case. It's a bit like talking rather at the person than having a conversation with them. I feel you. Have trouble remembering people's kids. I don't even remember gender and quantity, let alone names and faces. After they talk about all those; jobs, babies, husbands, I would blurt out,"so, now that artificial inteligence is getting more sophisticated, do you think one day robots will take over humanity? I hate small talk. If someone really has something to say about their job or their family, or just their last trip to the supermarket, something that comes from the heart and isn't just blabbered into the air to keep a pointless conversation going, that's fine with me, though. I don't mind "mundane" subjects or chatting, I just don't like interaction with other people that is insincere and meaningless. I also hate it when people just agree with everything you say no matter what their real opinions on the matter are. I agree with both opinions a bit. It depends on my mood, I guess. I don't like the kind of small talk you described, T.o.by, but can sometimes enjoy conversations about rather trivial topics when they interest me. But sometimes I am more like what Arcadia and Van Buren Supernova describe and just don't listen because it is too boring and I cannot relate to it. That are the moments when I tend to be rather quiet and so am considered to be shy although I am just not interested in the topic and don't want to talk about it. Especially writing also helps me to think, but talking works as well. I think for me it is easier to order my thoughts that way. I know that clothes problem as well. I tend to be rather repetitive when it comes to clothes and shoes and would like to own more than one piece of my favourites. But as you say it takes a while to decide whether something belongs to those favourites and then it's not on the market anymore. But nevertheless I own a few of the same trousers in two different colours and even have got one shirt twice. I like the comparison with Sherlock's coats.

Welcome, Ryss! I am from Germany, so English isn't my native language either. But I understand everything you wrote. Although I guess I sometimes make mistakes, I just write and try not to worry too much. People will ask if they don't understand something.

When I started watching Sherlock and reading the orginal stories I also remembered a show I sometimes watched when I was younger: The Adventures of Shirley Holmes ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Shirley_Holmes). It's not a version of Sherlock Holmes as the title already suggests. It is a show about a girl, Shirley Holmes who is Sherlocks great-grandniece in this version. She solves crimes with a boy called Bo (her Watson). Shirley also has a "Moriarty", another girl with the name Molly Hardy. I know I liked the show when I was younger although I had only watched a few episodes and now I looked it up again. I found out that there many of the episodes on youtube, so if you don't know it you can have a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hffYlhEJP1k&index=1&list=PLmsYAPce1a9UWR9UKfHgSMDpvtd7AZv-F Does anyone else here know that show? I have just started re-watching the episodes I found, I think I can tell you more when I am more into it again. Okay, Sherlock has brought me to re-watch a show of my childhood now. That's a bit scary, no other show had made me want to do that yet, but on the other hand there are memories connected with it and it's fun. At least I watch it in English now, that's an improvement, I guess. :lol:

… when you read all 98 pages here about Sherlock obsession, but still can add something. … when you wonder what Sherlock would deduce about you when he would meet you. I guess I do that too often, trying to figure something out. But it's difficult to imagine what exact details he would observe while he is looking at me. Then I wonder if I would like to hear what he would say. I don't know, but at least I think it would be interesting. … when you can find a connection with Sherlock for abbreviations that mean something totally different in the context you are currently reading. For example I had to read a questionnaire many times that included the abbreviation TBB. The first thing I thought about was The Blind Banker. Every time. Although I knew better after looking it up after I first read it and didn't know what it means in that context. That works as well with license plates of cars. I have often seen SH or MH or similar ones. … when you watch Interview with the Vampire and understand Lestrade instead of Lestat.

Thank you all for your welcome! Hello and welcome here! There are several of us here who came to discover the show late, but we at least had the advantage of being able to see all the episodes and not have to endure the 2-year breaks (until now!!!). Your English is fine. Don't worry. Yes, that was an advantage, but I guess it also might have made it a bit less special or something like this. I mean, others had to wait so long and I just watched the episodes so fast compared to that. After the fall I already knew that I had the chance to continue instantly and I think that's a huge difference to having to wait so long. Wow, what are the other languages you speak? Thank you and welcome, too! Which stories have you already read? Aww. I just made the name up because of the sound. I was playing with syllables and I liked it too. Poor Caya, you have to find other Sherlockians in Austria to join us. ;)

I am Lalarun from Germany and new here, so I just wanted to introduce myself. I discovered Sherlock rather late (I think it was last year). I had only watched a few bits of The Great Game on TV then. Later I watched all the episodes and really liked it. In the meantime I have re-watched all the episodes (not only in the German dubbed version but of course also the "normal" one with the original voices which I prefer now that I know it) many times and now I am here. The show also brought me into reading the original Sherlock Holmes stories. I only started with that and haven't already read all of them. P.S.: I am sorry for my mistakes regarding the English language, just feel free to correct me. It will help me to learn and improve my English.