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Title: Giles Coren's letter to Times subs
Post by: yesno on July 31, 2008, 01:42:37 PM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/23/mediamonkey

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3) And worst of all. Dumbest, deafest, shittest of all, you have removed the unstressed 'a' so that the stress that should have fallen on "nosh" is lost, and my piece ends on an unstressed syllable. When you're winding up a piece of prose, metre is crucial. Can't you hear? Can't you hear that it is wrong? It's not fucking rocket science. It's fucking pre-GCSE scansion. I have written 350 restaurant reviews for The Times and i have never ended on an unstressed syllable. Fuck. fuck, fuck, fuck.
Title: Re: Giles Coren's letter to Times subs
Post by: senorcorazon on July 31, 2008, 02:08:22 PM
The response is also great:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/29/sundaytimes.pressandpublishing
Title: Re: Giles Coren's letter to Times subs
Post by: Pat K on July 31, 2008, 03:16:48 PM
I like how his letter about the unassailability of his prose is riddled with typos.
Title: Re: Giles Coren's letter to Times subs
Post by: John Junk 2.0 on July 31, 2008, 08:10:32 PM
They ruined his gay joke!

Still, he signed it "All The Best".  He's kind of mensch after all.

Title: Re: Giles Coren's letter to Times subs
Post by: Sarah on August 02, 2008, 09:25:26 AM
I'm betting that dropped "a" was a typo.
Title: Re: Giles Coren's letter to Times subs
Post by: Martin on August 02, 2008, 10:35:53 AM
I'm betting that dropped "a" was a typo.

Fixed!