Added: 1 year ago
From: multiKitten
Views: 33,965
Sort by time | Sort by thread (beta)

Link to this comment:

Share to:

All Comments (139)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • I hung out the washing while I hanged out with my friends. Hung is for objects, hanged is for people. Hope this helps.

  • First time I saw this episode, when I heard the words "just tell me what happened from the beginning," I honestly thought they had Alan Rickman as a guest star, since it was in silouhette and from a distance and you can't see his face. Didn't initially realise that it was Sherlock speaking. (This was before I'd heard Benedict's Rickman impression.)

    Either way you look at it, though, his voice is amazing.

  • This is where David went in Friends (Minsk)... you know... that guy that nearly proposed to Pheobe...

  • Awesome!

  • Grammar Nazis....I love them! His voice is a plus too ;-)

  • I don't get hanged and hung, but I think:

    If you're referring to people, they are hanged.

    Objects, like posters and pictures, are hung.

    But honestly, he's just getting him how quickly the prisoner can be angry and violent, just like how he cut up his girlfriend.

  • I would do this too..

  • I think he sounds more like AR here then when he does an impression of him...

  • Sounds sooo much like Alan Rickman

  • shit, he sounds an awful lot like Alan Rickman....

  • I hate it when people know how to use correct grammar but choose to be lazy. It IRRITATES me! x

  • @LadeyYuna Yeah, same here. Punctuation too.

  • lol xD

  • I am such a Grammar Nazi. I REGRET NOTHING.

  • He sounds so much like Alan Rickman at the beginning o.O...here I was lamenting the fact that there would never be as sexy a voice, but now i've found one almost identical!? happy days :D

  • @Dracilla112 I THOUGHT SO TOO. WOAH.

  • At this moment I'm truly a proud grammar nazi!

  • LOL ! hang for this

    Sherlock: hanged !

  • I do this, yay! I'm like Sherlock :)

  • I am a Grammar Nazi as well :D

  • I'm curious why it is he's travel all the way to Minsk for what is very clearly 'an open and closed domestic' but later he won't even leave the flat for what he calls 'a seven'. Surely this case can't have sounded like more than a five at the time, no?

  • @ArcherOi On his website, he seems willing partly because John encourages him for the money factor (Berwick's family is rich) and partly because he's "never been to Belarus".

  • I would totally marry Sherlock. I'd probably go mental soon after, but...

  • @SmileAtMeAgain1 But it would be so totally deliciously worth it! ;-)

  • Comment removed

  • 0:11 Hey, who invited Alan Rickman--OHSWEETLORD. Benedict must be related to him SOMEHOW. It's uncanny.

  • @SydneyGotVicious i totally thought it was too

  • they had quite a hard job translating this scene to swedish XD

  • Oh, I didn't pay attention to this scene in the French version. Gotta watch it now!

  • Sherlock Holmes is my spirit animal.

  • I don't think my mind can handle any more of Sherlock's badassness.

  • I love how Sherlock is such a grammar nazi that the guy actually ends up correcting himself.

    "...weren't breathing no more."

    *disbelieving look*

    "ANY more."

  • I had an argument with my teacher about the whole hung/hanged thing....He was trying to convince us that if a person is going to be hanged it is hung, which of course it isn't. In the end, after about 10 minutes of me arguing with him he went to his laptop and looked it up. Clear as day on the overhead projector was "hanged"...Never felt better

  • @m3erw Dear Lord. I hope he wasn't an English teacher.

  • ...Is that SNAPE talking?

  • Hahaha! This is just so funny!

  • hung and hang always confused me ('m not native speaker)

  • @ejeevika I'm a native speaker and they've always confused me, too! xD English is a silly language.

  • @multiKitten Thought that was Latin. A silly-billy language. ;)

  • @ejeevika You've hung a picture, you've hanged a person.

  • @FrenchieLeToast at last!!! thanks)

  • @ejeevika If something is 'hung' then it's hung on a peg, 'hanged' is a past tense of 'to hang' used specifically for 'hanging someone by the neck until they're dead' sort of thing :) hope that makes more sense! xx

  • @ejeevika *hanged

    I'm born and bred in Hong Kong :P

  • So Sherlock sounds like Alan Rickman, and looks like he could be a younger version of what you can see in the beginning of this clip. Just me? >___>"

  • its...ALAN RICKMAN!

  • @WindScar48 I actually had to pause the video so I could finish laughing hysterically. Never will be able to unhear it.

  • He would go insane in some High Schools.

  • @AliYume1 As a 14yr old grammar geek, I already do...

  • Actually, I do believe Sherlock's just trying to rile the guy up by correcting his grammar. Sort of to see if he's given to violent explosions if annoyed or angry and obviously he is. So I'd say this was Sherlock's way of verifying his theory and solving the 'case'. I mean you don't see him constantly correcting other people's grammar so it makes sense to say it's a specialty for the occasion/means to an end..?

  • @jamiependragon That's a really interesting theory! I hadn't thought of that. Although, it's hard to say for sure whether or not that's entirely what he was doing, because I think this is the only time we see him around someone with really bad grammar, isn't it?

  • @multiKitten

    Holmes didn't know that the Earth revolved around the Sun simply because it wasn't useful to him as a detective. It's similarly unlikely grammar would be useful to him if only to piss the guy off.

  • @jamiependragon Finally someone who thinks that too!

  • I'm a bit curious as to why the English to German translation has received so much attention here. Yes, perhaps there was diversity in the translation -and why that is a big deal escapes me, quite honestly. Regardless, I like this scene. It's exciting.

  • @pavelthe2 I think because it sort of ruins the joke (in my opinion, anyway). It's not a grammar joke anymore, and therefore loses something.

  • @pavelthe2 In English that guy might just be speaking a regional variety of English (like for ex. in/around Newcastle where you hear things like 'but that's how he was, like' in everyday speech but not in London for ex.) or is supposed to be from some lower social class as Sherlock. It's a joke around those lines. In German that guy uses perfectly normal everyday speech even academics use (for ex.) apart from one instance as far as I can remember (been a while since I watched it)

  • @pavelthe2 and Sherlock is correcting that, coming across as a bit old-fashioned in those moments or very elite-like and it therefore reflects more on Sherlock's character than on that guy (as it does in the English version). Rest assured the German version had me cringe several times, not only here, but then in the English Blind Banker episode the German got messed up, so it equals out in the end. :o) [sorry for length, linguist/translator from Germany but living in England; can't shut up] :o)

  • This was kind of more amusing for me because I'm also a grammar geek...

  • In German he says something different at the end :

    "Ill get hanged for this!"

    "Oh, no, no. Here you'll get shot."

    Still like the original voices more though :D

  • Priceless

  • I'm always doing this to my friends, nice to see im not the only one.

  • The Great Game has to be the best television episode I have ever seen - truly, amazing, so well contsructed, and I love this! The way it starts! It's amazing how Sherlock manages to be so funny while still always being dramatic, end never seeming cheap

  • As Sherlock I can't stand people who don't use proper grammar. Of course the english grammar is rather hard to learn for some (I'm not a native speaker, either) but it just drives me crazy. I consider myself a grammar nazi, too (which sounds quite odd since I am from Germany...) and I know people find that annoying but I can't help it.

  • Comment removed

  • :storyofmylife:

  • Listen to 0:11 - 0:15 with your eyes closed and tell me you don't automatically think of Alan Rickman.

  • @MistressGrammar OMG...

  • This always ALWAYS makes me grin and shake with silent laughter. Never fails to make my day - it's my pick-me-up :D

  • Did they make him look and talk like Snape on purpose? I mean, this stressed "just", and the whole first sentence doesn't really sound like Sherlock. And this sillhouette... they probably wanted everyone to realize how similar their voices are :D

  • @1xYenax1 moreso to show how annoyed he already is with the man he's talking to xD I realized how he sounded like Alan Rickman long before this episode came out lol

  • Did they make him look and talk like Snape on purpose? I mean, this stressed "just", and the whole first sentence doesn't really sound like Sherlock. And this sillhouette... they probably wanted everyone to realize how similar their voices are :D

  • When I first saw this I was like: OMG ALAN RICKMAN!!! THIS HOW IS THE GREATET AND IT'S EVEN BETTER NOW!!!!, and then i realised it was just Sherlock and was like.....lol

  • @Taryawen

    I agree with you. but if you see the whole film in english, you'll find "mistakes" in translating that are even worse.

    my stomach hurts when i read nazi...

  • Genius. Pure Genius.

  • He takes the title of grammar nazi to a whole new level....Love it.

  • They ruined the joke in the german version.. it's "without you i'll get hanged for this!" "Hanged? No. Here you'll get shot." -.-

  • @Taryawen

    Is there a difference between 'hanged' and 'hung' in german?

  • @BackWoodsPuppy well, they could have made any stupid mistake for sherlock to correct it.. ;)

  • @Taryawen they ruin the most jokes by translating..u can translate dialogues but u cant translate humor

  • @Taryawen Ruined? I don't think so. It was already established in the bit of previous dialogue that Sherlock is a Grammar Nazi, so they opted (rather than translating it wrong) to simply replace one joke with another, and they didn't ruin it by doing that. If anything, they made it more plausible; you actually WILL get shot rather than hanged in Belarus. In the back of your head, no less. Sherlock, being who he is, of course, had to share his knowledge. :)

  • @Taryawen it's a translation problem. I think in English saying 'get hung' instead 'get hanged' is a mistake made rather easily. But what would you make of it in German instead of "werde ich gehängt"? I can't really think of anything close that's not a completely made-up word. So the next best thing was to just change it a bit and after some grammar lesson give that guy a lesson on the Belorussian justice system as well. I thought the script for the dubbing was rather brilliant actually

  • @cinefreak76 Well as Sherlock is correcting his grammar he whole scene through, I think they should have made "werde ich gehangen" or something - Sherlock is a grammar nazi in this scene, so he should be it untill the end. just my opinion..

  • Comment removed

  • 0:23-

    Shouldn't it be "wasn't happy with that" ?

    :D

  • And then he had to spoil it in the next scene by saying "who's sleeping with who," when he should have said 'whom.' It's not easy to be a grammar nazi. :C

  • grammer nazi for the win

  • lol he truely is a grammar nazi

  • I was cringing at this scene, like Sherlock. I HATE people who don't use proper grammar.

  • Sherlock might be the most loveable asshole ever.

  • Dammit... that voice... It could be Alan Rickman! xD

  • SO loved that scene xDD i was waiting for that guy to freak out but he took it quite well. ^^

  • If I had HIM for an english teacher, I bet my grammer would be perfect! Heheh, or horrible as I'd be too busy listening to him to bother learning!

  • This is h-i-l-a-r-i-o-u-s :))) It's just like, Sherlock Holmes summed up in under 2 mins :P

  • 'Grammar Nazi' = best title EVER!

  • Does anyone know if I can get this series on Netflix instant?

  • @MrNubbinz Yes, you can! :D

  • One day it won't be 'Alan Rickman's' voice but 'Benedict Cumberbatch's'...

  • @WindScar48 Yesss!! He sounds so much like Alan!

  • @xSheIsRegretx Yep, so true...He has the same sexy voice.....

  • LOL

  • Just...tell me....what happened...Mr. Potter...

  • @WindScar48 absolutely....hi alan.

  • @WindScar48 I can't thumbs up this comment enough

  • That is EXACTLY what I'm like.

  • Oops, I accidentally poured this gigantic bucket of Methyldichlorosilane into your bath while I was conveniently wearing this gas mask... Im innocent!

  • ooh..harsh

  • Sadly, I seem to remember there's a who/whom mistake just after the titles...

  • @nellytheninkynonk Yeah, Sherlock says "who's sleeping with who" instead of "who's sleeping with whom". At the end of the episode, he also says "What if I was to shoot you now?" when I'm pretty sure it should be "What if I were to shoot you now?"

  • @multiKitten Yeah...I mean my friend pointed out the first one could be forgiven because he was quoting popular culture in a way, but I can find no excuses for the one in the pool scene.

    BUT HEY, it's Mark effing Gatiss, he could write an episode in text speak and I would forgive him.

  • @nellytheninkynonk Haha! Amen to that.

  • @multiKitten Hah! So I wasn't the only one who noticed. Oh well. He's only human. Sort of.

  • @candymandy224 Blasphemy. Sherlock is beyond the level of a mere human!

  • @Nathanroqs Yup, that was the "sort of"

  • @multiKitten Is it, though? Putting it in another context, "I were going to shoot you." "I was going to shoot you." I thought 'I were' was correct, but it SHOULD be 'I was', shouldn't it? 'Were' is the plural form of that word.

    Christ, Engilsh is difficult. I don't envy the ESL learners.

  • @DeanPants The context is very important, though. Because Sherlock's "if" statement was a hypothetical/conditional situation, "were" is correct. Had his "if" statement been a way to suggest that a situation was unclear (e.g. "If I was rude, I apologize"), then "was" would've been correct. I hope that makes sense. xD

  • @multiKitten That's true. Since it's the conjunctive form of 'be'. I think they honestly ARE both grammatically correct - well, in the sense that 'if I was' isn't WRONG, per se, but seems to be more modern colloquialism than the traditionally correct wording?

  • @DeanPants Yeah, "if I was" is pretty commonly used but I think "if I were" is more formally correct, which I tend to expect from Sherlock. Just because he's Sherlock.

  • Haha, I love his exasperated sigh at 0:29! XD Love the ending though! :D

  • @horohorosin

    (I did it on purpose)

  • Sadly, I said aloud, "No, you'll be hanged," just before Sherlock says it. My friends, who had already seen the series once before, just burst out laughing. I apparently have ESP with Sherlock Holmes.

  • Moral of the story, if you want Sherlock Holmes to help you, help yourself by using correct grammar.

  • YAY FOR GRAMMAR NAZI'S<3

  • Im going to have a english presentation about Benedict Cumberbatch and Sherlock, and Im going to use this clip!

  • It's awesome and I can't stop watching it. My favourite moment.

  • There were moments that I thought it was Alan Rickman speaking.....

    and that smirk :)

  • @carzura I thought that was just my imagination!! Glad I'm not the only one.

  • @carzura - Benedict Cumberbatch is infamous for doing Alan Rickman impressions to amuse his friends.  ;) You'll find some of them on YouTube... He even does it on the Sherlock DVD commentary!

  • @joiraida Its funny because I had an instant suspicion when I saw this scene and heard the voice that Alan Rickman was to be Moriarty. I thought that would be great

  • @carzura ....He really does sound like Alan Rickman here, doesn't he? O_O I am equal parts frightened and turned on by this.

  • @carzura OMG I know.

  • @carzura My words exactly! I was watching this with friends who'd already seen the series and think he's cute- but I was like 'OMG-HE-HAS-SUCH-A-GORGEOUS-VO­ICE!!!' :P

  • @carzura Oh, thank God, I'm not the only one!

  • @carzura Oh wow I never noticed that before, they are creepily similar.

  • @carzura OMG first time i heard him talk I was like WTF SNAPE?

  • I'm sending this clip to my humanities teacher :)

  • Everyone says you're the best. Without you... i'll get hung for this!

    No, not at all... hanged, yes.

    XDXDXD

  • @VeryAngryCamel i don't know the difference, because i'm german

  • @Hanna9469 i´m german too.. and i know the difference. let´s just say the first one is wrong and the second one correct. ^^;

  • @Hanna9469 "hung" hat die Bedeutung, dass man etwas aufhängt (einen Mantel z.B.). "hanged" heißt jemanden erhängen. Das Macht in diesem Kontext also schon einen deutlichen Unterschied. =)

Loading...
Alert icon
0 / 00Unsaved Playlist Return to active list
    1. Your queue is empty. Add videos to your queue using this button:
      or sign in to load a different list.
    Loading...Loading...Saving...
    • Clear all videos from this list
    • Learn more