The Stockbroker's Clerk: Verbatim

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Title: The Stockbroker's Clerk: Verbatim
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60                     
Rating: G
Warning: Half of this is ACD.
Summary: It's a valuable skill to be multi-lingual.

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"…lost my crib…"

"…came a nasty cropper."

"…when the smash came…"

"…other chaps on the same lay as myself, and it was a perfect frost for a long time."

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Holmes read my notes aloud, enunciating young Hall Pycroft's phrases in a pitch-perfect cockney accent. Then he eyed me.

"Watson. You will translate this into English before you publish, won't you?"

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

And he would have done, but Mrs Hudson was late bringing his cup of rosie up the apples and pears and it got forgotten.

[debriswoman]

Excellent:-)

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Thank goodness for Watson!

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

"In six months I can train that Cockney accent out of my fair laddie here."

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Thanks! That's a great paragraph.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Like he's going to take writing advice from Mr. Knowledge-of-Literature-Nil.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

^__________^


Now, now, Holmes. Being a scientist yourself, you should really accept that all varieties of English are equally valid, from a scientific viewpoint ^____^

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

That's true - and if Holmes can blend into any group whilst in disguise it follows that he can at least carry on a conversation in the lingua franca.