By: Philip Gray
And did he send the copy through on time I wonder? I can guess the answer.
View ArticleBy: Are Terms Of Endearment Ever Ok At Work? « Mrs. Professionalism
Pingback: I recently came across this fabulous rant from the blog Rantings of a Sub-Editor. In it Cathy Relf, the author, discusses a phone call [...]
View ArticleBy: legalsub
Passed this around the subs desk and we are all horrified members of the subbing sisterhood. And attaching a class issue to an interaction with a greengrocer (clearly a more informal environment than...
View ArticleBy: substuff
Hehe, thanks sub-sisters! The class-issue criticisms came as quite a shock, but I should have foreseen them and explained myself better. I guess I’m guilty here of assuming that people will magically...
View ArticleBy: Jake
I’d just like to point out that Cher cannot, in fact, turn back time. In her 1989 hit “If I could turn back time”, she clearly laments that it’s very much a power she wishes to posses – not one that...
View ArticleBy: The Daily News (@TheDailyNewsUK)
Sod the greengrocers. When they put their apostrophe house in order then we can deal with issues of their status.
View ArticleBy: Random Writer
Excellent post and very true. If you had said “taxi driver” instead of “greengrocer” you might have had fewer classist accusations, maybe not. I don’t think you were being classist, but since I now...
View ArticleClik here to view.
By: Lee Stone
Term of friendly endearment or sexist put-down? The trouble is it depends on the context, which is something that is hard to get across, and the intention of the speaker, which is sometimes difficult...
View Article
