A Study in Scarlet, Pt. 2: Divided By a (fairly) Common Language

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Canon Story: A Study in Scarlet, Pt. 2
Title: Divided By a (fairly) Common Language
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: “This is a queer old book I picked up at a stall yesterday—De Jure inter Gentes—published in Latin at Liege in the Lowlands, in 1642.” [Watson] answered, “...you must make yourself contented by the consciousness of success, like the Roman miser—“ ‘Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplar in arca.’ ” It’s all Greek to me...


“...and so I dropped everything and travelled from Colorado to consult you.”

Watson nodded. “Carpe diem!”

“Yes…”

Mr. Fisher turned to Holmes.

“I realise you may not be able to help me but…”

”Nil desperandum!” Holmes beamed at his client.

Mr. Fisher smiled back somewhat tentatively.

He hadn’t been expecting the British accent to be quite this difficult to understand.

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Just using the words used by their ancestors ...

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Well, if we're playing that game...

Mr. Fisher decides to switch to Dutch ^_^

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Double Dutch, I assume!

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Ja, dat klopt ^^

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Nil sine numine is the state motto, fyi. I'm going to take it as a shout-out even if it wasn't intended. I've a hour or so more before I catch a big bird back east. Will catch up when I can.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

It was indeed a shout-out ^_^ Safe journey home!

Thanks for the info about Colorado's state motto ^^ Mine is a bit of a cheeky 60 because the average American would of course know exactly the same common Latin phrases as a couple of Britons.

[debriswoman]

Oh, that's right...make the poor client even more bewildered...

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

They don't do it deliberately, bless 'em ^__^

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I did get a lol out of this.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

It makes me grin too ^_^

[castiron.livejournal.com]

Well done! I am now picturing Holmes as the centurion in that Life of Brian sketch.... "I see from your incorrect vocative that you are one of Rome's subject populations and were educated in a Hebrew school. Your bone structure, however, suggests that your father may have been a Roman; since he did not train you in proper Latin grammar, you were therefore illegitimate...."

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love that ^_^ That's brilliant ^_^

[castiron.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[sanguinity]

Oh, nice! :-)

[sanguinity]

Such dorks, those two. :-)

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Oh, they are! ^_^