Criticise his grammar? Why would one want to do that (one doesn't do it
without just cause, you know)?
On the contrary, full marks to young Fildes for using "fork out" rather than
the dreadful "fork over" (I could barely bring myself to type that, my dear
chap) :-)
Piers
PS If there had been any cause for criticism, the blame would surely have
lain at the sub-editor's door. Or the parent's.
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From: Andrew Fildes [mailto:afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 16 November 2011 08:59
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: [OM] You're rich. Buy your own, OK?
#1 son sent me a message a couple of days ago - he's finally written about
photography - in a way.
He seemed to find this quite amusing -
"I got this mini-scoop into The Times today:"
? Another sign that the days of the corporate freebie are over. Joe Baratta,
the most senior member of Blackstone?s private equity team in Europe,
spearheaded the £100 million-plus investment in Leica in October. The
private equity heavy hitter mentioned at that time that he was lusting after
a Leica camera, having completed the deal for a 44 per cent stake in the
German company. A month on and City Diary learns that Mr Baratta finally has
his Leica. However, we were surprised to learn that he had to fork out for
the camera from his own pocket. ?Aren?t you in private equity? Don?t you
earn enough money to buy your own?? Mr Baratta was asked when he inquired
whether he could have one on the house. Typical teutonic frugality or a sign
that the company is very tightly run?
I explained to him that the nice folk at Leica only admire two types of
people - very good photographers and very good camera designers. The rest of
us can cough up.
And Chris B, if you want to criticise his grammar I'll let him know and give
him your phone number. And you really, really don't want me to do that. He
can be a very grumpy young man.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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