Giles Coren, the UK’s Most Important Restaurant Critic, using a thousand words (some of them rude) to hurl his toys right in the faces of Times subs for their ruthless and thoughtless butchering of his precious, precious copy. WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE UNSTRESSED SYLLABLES.
It’s always tough when a go-to site shuts down, especially one like MP3sFinder, which was a reliable and fast resource…
I think he’s actually right about the specific change made to the copy! But yes there are more delicate and shorter ways to express it :)
i: more like syllaBALLS <– yell to stress
ii: alternative route to professionally jokemaking = ACTUALLY BE FUNNY?
iii: “Tell me the exact reasoning which led you to remove that word from my copy” — that exact reasoning? it seemed equally useless either way d00d
iv: timidest blowjob gag in history (hee i sed GAG)
I’m with Mr. Coren on this. I think that the subtleties in his writing are not lost on your average Times reader, and it’s precisely the clever use of innuendo and word play that makes his column such a joy to read each week.
That said, perhaps a quiet word in the ear might have worked better than a letter that had the potential to appear in the public domain. Now he just seems like a c0ck, and a nightmare to work with.
I don’t much like Coren’s opinions, nor have I any inclination to change my view of him, but he seems a pretty good writer and I think he’s right on this (minor) issue. He *is* rather forceful with his attack, though, and his jokes aren’t particularly good if jokes they can truly be called.
is this why carsmile always says alBUM?
Cowardly Times editor too scared to fire him and replace with Ben Watson.
out to DINE with out to LUNCH
“Why would you change a sentnece aso that it meant something i didn’t mean?”
I can think of a reason why this guy’s sentences might get subbed.
I wrote one article for Record Collector back in the day (Search: Jesus and Mary Chain).
There were a great many ‘corrections’ that ruined some of the ‘jokes’/’style’ and rendered a couple of things totally wrongly.
I was at least as angry as G.Coren’s letter, and I’m no established writer with some names I can complain to.
Needless to say, I calmed down the next day, and banked my cheque hray (100 sovs! Imagine!)
Time for another cheap but justified BabelFish laugh:
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Oh, very droll: http://twitter.com/GilesCoren
What the hell was that? Oh internet, and those that etc….
Sleepless nights? I was all prepared to defend him ’til I read the letter!