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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.

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 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.)