Sub-editors: how can I avoid killing them?

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"Aw thanks, Martin!"

one starts as a reporter and works their way up :)

what training do you have, emsk? the NUJ runs subbing courses all over the place: they'd be a good place to start.

also: i fear a large part of PA's subbing operation is now in yorkshire somewhere. (or is it lancashire? no, that's northern and shell. ach: subs please check.)

if you want, drop me an e-mail off board (use the webmail link or i'll not see it for years) and i can give you the benefit of my immense wisdom hem-hem-hem.

No wonder RJG is on the run.

oh, wank. wonder why? goddamn ilx. never mind. i found it (in my spam folder) and shall reply when sober, over the weekend.

(And here's a peeve: That scene in Shattered Glass where the publisher makes the whole editing staff go through the whole magazine circling every comma to make sure that each one has a complementary comma to go with it. Which only makes sense when you're using commas to set off a clause, not if you're breaking up discrete parts of a sentence. It was like, the movie was trying to show these wonky editors hard at wonky work, but it got the details wrong.

Then of course there's the move where Drew Barrymore is a copyeditor at a Chicago newspaper with her own office and personal assistant. Oh how I laughed. And cried.)

you're joking, of course, ronan. but let's just assume that this is a parallel universe and you're not ...

1) i wouldn't trust anyone who uses three dog-dicks to have the first idea what to do with a comma ;)

2) did you ever write a dissertation on commas? 'cos i did. you can read it if you want. no, really. come back ...

anyway. that's not why i came here. i came to say: emsk, did you get my e-mail? any use?

this is my favorite movie ever! her name is JOSIE GROSSIE!

emsk: no worries at all! glad to be of service.

they're both pretty thankless jobs. (well, except drew-as-writer gets to kiss the cute, with-it teacher at the end.)

"n06splash.headline has been assigned to you or your group"

[open]

"DARLING I LOVE YOU. WILL YOU
MARRY ME? AND TO FILL AT 72PT"

x,,,,,,post.

please forgive

(not funny - soz)

seriously, yes, i shall try to dig it out. in a non-PM5 format. i shall e-mail you soon. or hopefully catch up with you IRL ... you missed a heap of tent-related comedy on friday night.

leeeee: yes. you need guns. and butter.

zoe: prizes if you spot the mistakes in GF's epic.

grim f: IRL/email, yes.

i would always advocate the direct approach. what have you got to lose?

not very good ones, i hope. it's fucking riddled with them. aren't most of the x-refs missing?

And the bit in Human Traffic where John Simm pretends to be a Mixmag writer to blag into a club and phones his PA. PA? Oh dear indeed.

"This action has caused the relationship to become detached"

(PS: I meant "no prizes" above there. stupid word-dropping sub. O the shame)

Grimly, I've emailed you a vaguely work related question that I would like answered please. A pint will be your reward :)