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Но самый интересный из моих сверстников -- это Мартин. Он фотомодель.
But the most interesting one [this requires an antecedent I haven't written down] from my colleagues/peers is Martin. He is a model.

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Когда говоришь «модель», обычно думаешь о женщние.
When one says "model", usually one thinks of women.
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Но оказывается, что фотографии Мартина видишь везде: на упаковках шампуня, в газетной рекламе костюмов и во всяких других местах!

... You know. I just realized. In the kidnapped children part of Reichenbach, Sherlock actually doesn't do much Holmesian stuff. He basically does act as CSI: Baker Street. I am unimpressed, Mr. Holmes. I mean, as a plot device it worked because he had that conversation with Molly that was important, but really. ... And actually given that, Donovan's an idiot, because yes, their boys could have done it. It's labwork. All they would have had to do was take what Sherlock pointed out to them, the footprints, and run the damn labwork. And then cross-reference, and it might have taken an hour or two longer but there wasn't anything special about that particular conclusion. Finding the footprints, yes, that was special. Gragh.

Anyway, yeah. And I'm kind of getting to the point where I wonder if maybe I should start pulling sentences from Day Watch or Twilight Watch or whatever Watch book it is I have in Russian to parse, just for the sake of increased complexity and stretching my vocabulary.

And finally, am I a bad person for wanting to write Sherlock fanfic, post Reichenbach or otherwise, solely to have someone ream him out for being a jackass? Maybe I'm just irritable this morning.

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I for one would read that fic with joy and well-being in my heart.

Yeah, the icon says it all, here. I spent yesterday off and on wanting to write fic solely where he and the call girl I made up for him to experiment with sit and have tea and she calls him a jackass and points out all the stupid shit he's done.

Но самый интересный из моих сверстников -> But the most interesting among my peers - the structure maps almost perfectly. (Not that you were WRONG, this is a closer variation.)

The next is correct generally, more literal would be "When you say "Model," you usually think of women." (It is second person singular, which can be translated as neutral, yes, but in a letter to a friend, it's usually really a 'you think' in a more direct use.)

*amused* Vik was going, "this is labwork, WHY are you doing it?" and my mental answer is that the connection between the clues is what he does (and the recognition of the chemistry off the top of his head, rather than having to look up/coordinate with other people to find out). But yeah, REALLY Donovan!

YAY WATCH BOOKS!

And mmmm yes. Sherlock needs smacked.

I keep forgetting that second one when I take it out of context like this. But, yes. Holy crap this is getting easier. XD

It didn't click for me because I was more focusing on the howdunnit and on the AUGH FUCKING WEEKEND OF SORCERY but this morning I was rewatching it and all "Wait a second. All you're doing is fucking LABWORK." So, yeah. XD

Sherlock needs a punch to the face. Argh.

I might have just almost fallen off my chair in a gigglefit, but I am confirming nothing.

*nods* The context really does help with some of the interpretation! And yay easier! *eyes her kanas, yelp* I have a row and a half. Um. 43. Wow. Right. More tomorrow.

And I don't really know enough of the actual forensics/etc. procedures to be able to tell if it can be done by any lab team/researcher or if it's more particular. SO I assumed it's more particular. ;)

I'm sure John will be very happy to oblige.

I think a good part of it was the speed. He could just stand there and run the elements and geographical information through his head instead of going to twenty different databases to sort them out, and that was what got them to the children in time; an hour later would probably have been too late for the boy. But yeah, I was headdesking because what is he doing handling the forensics? Idk how it works in Great Britain, but there is a thing we have here called chain of evidence and with how the show presented the situation Lestrade's superior was unfortunately right to take exception to it.

(I don't think Lestrade WOULD have allowed Holmes to break the chain of evidence, as that's exactly the kind of thing the defense loves to pick apart and he'd know that; the best evidence is useless if it can't be presented in court. But that's TV for you; I headdesked at Murphy in Dresden Files going through a crime scene without gloves too.)

That's probably it, but it still irritates me when Donovan's all "That's unbelievable!" No, no it's not you unmitigated twit. It's just faster than you can make connections, the evidence is right there. Of course, if they treated it more realistically it wouldn't have made for a very good story, but it still makes me want to chew things. Also the fact that Lestrade basically arrested Sherlock with no evidence whatsoever other than that Sherlock was faster with the labwork.

(I think that was one of the things that made me stop watching Bones, with the title character picking people's gum out of trash cans to use for DNA evidence. It's a TRASH CAN. There is now who-knows-what on that gum, not to mention on the napkin you used to grab it. Trash cans are cesspools of DNA.)

Of course not. We never do that. We are all sober serious dignified here. Promise.

(Now I really have to write that fic. For our own gratification if nothing else.)

Context ALWAYS helps. ;) Ugh, more Arabic this weekend, eek.

If I'm remembering right, it more requires specialized equipment than specialized knowledge, although obviously it requires both to recognize the compounds and things. A mass spectrometer would be able to do it, I think. Which is found in most forensics labs all over the place. And if I remember the way a mass spectrometer works he was basically doing the work of a mass spectrometer BY HAND, which is unnecessary and time consuming.

But, that's if I remember correctly. I could very well be mis-remembering, it's been a while.

If John does not punch him in the S3 premiere I will be disappoint. XD

Little bit at a time. Russian was scary scary in the beginning, too! (Also, no, self, you do NOT start to consider whether to go with Arabic or Greek next, just focus on what you have now...)

Ye-es. Oh well. Maybe he doesn't trust their error margin or something? >.>

*snickers* yesh. Also, I have a craving for a good scene between Sherlock and Mycroft.

(Also, I don't think they were working for evidence to be presented in court, at least Sherlock wasn't - he was looking for the children, not the criminal. The culprit would have required a whole different set of ... stuff?)

Also the fact that Lestrade basically arrested Sherlock with no evidence whatsoever other than that Sherlock was faster with the labwork.

And the child's scream (if she was hysterical enough and they hadn't been able to get anything else out of her that day, especially). I also got the impression it was part of there being a general inquiry on why he'd been let in on so many cases and whether his involvement tainted them, but. Still.

(Argharghargh. >.< I've taken only a few forensics classes, and that was a while ago, but ARGH.)

Hmm, very good point.

*still flails a bit* Confoosing stuff is confoosing!

Neither I nor the bagpipe will say no!