Victor Frankenstein

[captivebird]

This looks like a lot of fun...

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[quarryquest]

That looks like'chased by horror monster'crossed with Ritchie's Holmes and an added Andrew Scott.

[captivebird]

Indeed! Directed by Paul McGuigan with Mark Gatiss, Louise Brealey and Alistair Petrie also in the cast - I'm amused by the whole thing. :-)

[daasgrrl]

Bless you - I am like this right now :D

Where is my Gatiss? We wants it, my precious...

[kehlen]

This is kind of offtopic.

Remember how you said you would have written Watson as Уоцон in Russian? Well, I have been listening to class on Coursera, and noticed the (American) instructor was not pronouncing the second 't' in 'twenty', so probably swallowing it is a modern trend.

Could it be the doctor's name was said closer to Уотсон a hundred years ago?

[captivebird]

In British English, the second 't' in twenty is still always pronounced unless we are deliberately faking an American drawl. :-)

As for Watson - the stress in the name has always been on the first vowel as far as I know. The 'son' at the end of surnames of this sort are always unstressed -  more like Уоцын than Уоцон if that is possible. The Уотсон spelling makes me want to give equal stress to both of the syllables, which I don't think would ever have been a native British pronunciation. But I could be wrong...

[kehlen]

Thank you for your insight. It's curious that you feel that 'цын' is less stressed than 'цон'. I have never quite paid enough attention :)

Also, happy birthday!

I wish you many interesting plays and movies, and trips that are not made tough by the games politicians play, and also that your children continue to be satisfied with their fields of study.

[rakspatel]

OMFG - This looks AMAZING! Thank you for posting - I had missed it - God knows why!