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[–] Famko@lemmy.world 92 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sherlock Holmes' "catchphrase", for lack of a better term, is "Elementary, my dear Watson", which is parodied in this comic.

[–] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fun fact though, Sherlock never actually says these phrases together. He does say "Elementary" and "... my dear Watson" but not together.

But really this is just an "akchtually" comment

[–] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To akchtually your akchtually... He doesn't say it in the original books, but he has been saying in secondary sources for over a 100 years. So I don't think people are wrong in saying that it's his catch phrase.

[–] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd like to think of an akchtually to your akchtually but I actually can't think of anything to rebut with.

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Akchually you don't need anything. Here's your permission slip:

+-------------------------+
| Permission to akchually |
|   without a rubuttal    |
|  is hereby granted to   |
|  @Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world  |
+-------------------------+

Hope you appreciate your new found powers :)

[–] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Akchutally, I find I can do whatever I want now

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was thinking it might be something like that, but i dont remember hearing him say that, but idk maybe i didnt watch the right show.

[–] ignirtoq@fedia.io 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He never actually says that exact phrase in the books. It's a cultural misquote, like "beam me up, Scotty," that somehow caught on in popular culture but wasn't in the original source.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it caught on because few people have read the books. Once they used it in media and continued to that is what folks know of sherlock holmes.

It also caught on because, while he never said it in the original books and short stories, it's something he absolutely could have said. He described things as "elementary" and used the phrase "my dear Watson" more than once, just never in quite that order.

For instance, here's a bit from The Crooked Man:

"I have the advantage of knowing your habits, my dear Watson," said he. "When your round is a short one you walk, and when it is a long one you use a hansom. As I perceive that your boots, although used, are by no means dirty, I cannot doubt that you are at present busy enough to justify the hansom."

"Excellent!" I cried.

"Elementary," said he.

It's just a coincidence that he never used the two phrases in one sentence.