Proof-reading is important

“HE’S an old Singapore hand, who spent four years here as the founding dead of Insead’s Asia campus from 1999 to 2002.“

Nicely done. I’m not sure how happy our new president, Prof De Meyer will be when he hears that he’s the ‘founding dead’ but I certainly had a good laugh at this. Another reason why I stopped reading Straits Times ? They need to do proof-reading,big time.

It’ll be a big mistake if you listened to your teachers who once told you that “You’ll learn good English by reading the newspaper more”. I’m sure it will, just probably not the local ones.

[Update : Of course it has been edited already.]