XXV. The Adventure of the Dubious Vocabulary {Video to Wardens and Friends}

[so_meretricious]

{Locked to Wardens, as well as friends and acquaintances among the inmates. Basically, if he doesn't hate you, you're on this filter.}

Fellow shipmates, I should like to know. What, exactly, {oh Lord, please don't let this be a vulgarity} is a blogger?

{If Watson is being slighted, he wants to know.}

Comments

[so_meretricious]

One does not like to assume, however added to the context it was used in I do not relish having spoken it. A variation of blackguard would certainly be a preferable one.

{As opposed to...well.}

[so_meretricious]

It was spoken of my...companion and biographer, one who has been terribly slandered of late.

[so_meretricious]

Someone who feels that his words are a compromise to his person. Former slander has mostly been a product of that malicious air that seems to permeate the language of so many aboard this vessel.

[so_meretricious]

{Holmes is...silent for a few moments.}

Yes, that is often the bent of the slander.

{For reasons completely unknown to the universe.}

[so_meretricious]

He is far too taken with his games and theatrics, and yet, a very dangerous man.

[so_meretricious]

Yes, there unfortunately are.