Even though I wouldn’t want my emails pub­lished, I still thought it was funny enough when War­ren Fernandez’s email ask­ing if any­one who’s been laid off by NYT would like to work as sub-editors at ST was pub­lished in Gawker:

From: War­ren Fer­nan­dez Jude
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:50:15 +0800
Sub­ject: Fw: and the mis­ery continues…

Would you know any­one within the NYT who could help us put out the word that we would be happy to take on some copy-editors, which we are in dire need of.

Ide­ally, they would oper­ate in our news­room in Sin­ga­pore, but we are open to the idea of some work­ing in the US, as Paul Zach does.

Many thanks

War­ren Fer­nan­dez
Deputy Edi­tor
The Straits Times
Tel: 63195343/63195312
Fax: 63198274
email: war­ren (a t) sph.com.sg

But what got me LOLROTF and then LOL stand­ing up was one of the comments:

On reflec­tion, how­ever, if this guy is end­ing sen­tences with ‘of’ then he isn’t kid­ding about need­ing copy editors.”

And then a response:


You don’t even want to know what the pun­ish­ment for a dan­gling par­tici­ple is in Singapore. ”

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  • mon­key­see

    Why did you trun­cate (cen­sor?) the orig­i­nal quote? Which was:
    “I’m too homo­sex­ual for Sin­ga­pore. On reflec­tion, how­ever, if this guy is end­ing sen­tences with ‘of’ then he isn’t kid­ding about need­ing copy editors.”

    PC or homo­pho­bia? Hmm…or rather, tsk tsk tsk.

  • mon­key­see

    Why did you trun­cate (cen­sor?) the orig­i­nal quote? Which was:
    “I’m too homo­sex­ual for Sin­ga­pore. On reflec­tion, how­ever, if this guy is end­ing sen­tences with ‘of’ then he isn’t kid­ding about need­ing copy editors.”

    PC or homo­pho­bia? Hmm…or rather, tsk tsk tsk.

  • http://miyagi.sg Mr Miyagi

    Wasn’t rel­e­vant to the post, dude.

  • http://miyagi.sg Mr Miyagi

    Wasn’t rel­e­vant to the post, dude.

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