Mateos

Yes, I've tried in many groups on Facebook and Google+, but not in this one, so thanks. I'll try. I've already read some answers and the most fascinating fact is that there are many people who haven't read any short stories about Sherlock or watched any adaptations, but they still are able to associate him with a pipe, a deerstalker, a coat, or a cane.

As I wrote some time ago in the welcoming post, I am writing my thesis about Sherlock Holmes, his popularity, and influence on modern generations. To finish my final chapter I need your answers in the survey. I hope that this new topic will help me in finding new respondents. It takes about 15 minutes and I know that in these times it is a long period of time, but I (and the supervisior of my thesis!) will be extremely grateful if you could fill this survey. I need about 50 more answers, the deadline is coming, so I'm getting more and more desperate about it. So, you know, I've just realized that my "Sherlock" obsession is bad when I started to spam and ask for help everywhere on the Internet. This is the link to survey, I've changed the language into English, so it's more friendly than before. https://www.survio.com/survey/d/Y6R1X6V3N2S2S4N9F But even if you don't fill the survey or you've already done it - do you think that Sherlock's popularity will last?

Ahh, Shrek is extremely popular in Poland, each year it appears at least two times in public TV in prime time (it's a classic as well as "Home Alone" for Christmas). I'm not a big fan of it, but many people love it, it's rather for adults than for children. And surely it's the best dubbed movie in Polish, the jokes are adjusted to our culture, maybe that's why it's so popular here. And the joke in the picture is connected with the song which appears in the soundtrack of Shrek: (it begins at 0.35, don't waste your life for tne beginning of the video). And no, I've never been a fan of Blink-182, I was into rap music, but they were in each music magazine.

Number 1 is "Shrek", you must have watched it. In 2 "Blink-182" is the name of a music band, you don't miss anything if you don't know it. It used to be famous (or it still is) among teenagers.

I'm logged in when I'm here, so finnaly I've seen winter off, thanks. And I totally agree that lending or borrowing money ruins relationships, even between close relatives. I've never expercienced it personally, but I know some broken families because somebody doesn't give money back, the problem has been acumulating since then, they avoid each other and so on. Sick.

Could you tell me how to turn off snow falling down on the forum? I smell spring in the air and this snow makes me so anxious - when I'm here, I'm constantly glancing through the window to make sure that winter hasn't come back. :D

I'm going to be a terrible digger, but I find this series really interesting, especially when it comes to the interpretation of Holmes and Watson. Watson comes back from the war, so his physical strength, energy, agression and simply his masculinity is very natural. Even if he was only a doctor in Afghanistan, he needed to meet tough conditions of the war, so that's exactly how I imagined Watson. It's quite contrasting to with BBC's Watson who is a bit weaker and mixed-up, because of his PTSD. Of course, that's completely understandable - Russian Watson is very Russian, BBC's Watson reflects nowadays soliders after their return to home. More fascinating in this Russian version is Sherlock who is definetely weaker than Watson. In fact, he is a doormat (I hope that's a good English word to describe his behaviour) and it's Watson who teaches him how to fight and how to be a real man. It's contradictive to the original Doyle's hero, but for me it's really funny and I like it.

I'd add John Luther. When I saw "Luther" for the first time, I've noticed some similarities to "Sherlock" (my fiancee completely disagrees with me). He's not as brilliant as Sherlock and sometimes it's not explained how he concludes who the criminal is, which is quite annoying, but his way of solving the case is very Sherlock-like to me. But in general the series is great, too.

Different forms of nouns depending on a subject of a sentence are often found in Slavic languages. The same is in numerals, and often when my students complain that "English is so difficult" I show them this graphic: And if you add "second", there appears some other version of it in Polish. ;)

Thank you, of course, your answers are helpful! I don't know why I can't change it into English. Probably, I chose Polish when I signed up to the website, but yes, you guessed right. I'm also making the survey among Poles and I am going to compare those answers. Hopefully, there results will be interesting. Thanks again, and I'm going back to look around the forum to find a conversation in which I can drag in. ;)

Hi, I'm Mateusz. I'm from Poland (and as I've already noticed, I'm not the only Pole here ). I have fallen in love with Sherlock thanks to BBC's series, but after some episodes I started to read Doyle's short stories and watch other movie adaptations. I'm a student of English philology, and I'm specialising in literature, so I wanted to encorporate Sherlock there. This way, I'm writing my MA about him. The topic is: "Sherlock Holmes as a literary and film hero uniting generations" I know that the first post with a request is not the best option to make friends here, but to be honest I have made this account because I need to find some English-speaking Sherlock fans who are able to take this survey - and probably I am in the right place. I will be extremely grateful if you find some time to fill it. https://www.survio.com/survey/d/Y6R1X6V3N2S2S4N9F I promise that I will try to contribute something more than this request.