Fic: The Letter Writer: G

[smallhobbit]

Title: The Letter Writer
Form/Word Count: 100
Characters/Pairing: Dr Watson, Sherlock Holmes
Rating: G
Warning/Content: Holmes has received a letter

 

Sherlock Holmes inspected the letter before throwing it over to me to examine.  “What do you make of that, Watson?”

“Written by someone, a man from the handwriting, educated to a basic level only.  His spelling relies on the sound of the words.”

“But look at the punctuation.”

I did as I had been instructed and said, “Now that I wouldn’t expect.”

“Precisely.  What uneducated man would use both a colon and a semi-colon in a letter, and both of them correctly?”

“And the spelling?”

“An attempt, and a bad one at that, to disguise the status of the writer.”

 

 

Comments

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Ha, ha. The semi colon is downfall of many; it requires deft handling.

[smallhobbit]

A very apposite reply!

[mafief]

Ha! Now go off and get whoever did the whatever.

[smallhobbit]

Holmes is already on the case :)

[debriswoman]

Go get’em, lads!

[smallhobbit]

They will!

[scfrankles]

Very clever - both Holmes and author ^___^

I remember at primary school our headmaster teaching us the semi-colon as a save for a (handwritten) run on sentence that should really be two sentences. Chuck in a semi-colon to separate them and it looks like you deliberately meant to do it that way ^___^

[smallhobbit]

Thank you. That sounds like a very useful tip!