Wordy humour
Adriano Celentano
Italian singer, Adriano Celentano, released a song in the ’70s with nonsense lyrics meant to sound like American English, apparently to prove Italians would like any English song. It was a hit.
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“I have special responsibility for commas”
I asked my neighbour what he did for a living. “I’m a sub-editor,” he told me, “with special responsibility for commas”. His response made me laugh. Hope it did the same to you? Punctuation matters. I’m a word geek, so Read more…
Writing Without Waffle
I rescued a cat.
Meet Domino, my new ten-year-old rescue cat. After a couple of weeks, I noticed he was unusually twitchy. He had these episodes every couple of evenings for a few minutes where he licked frantically, his back muscles rippled and he kicked Read more…
Writing Without Waffle
I woke up at 4am…
I woke up at 4am. “Oh no, the bath is the wrong way round, the lights are in the wrong place, I’ve ordered the wrong vanity unit and the feature wall needs to be on the opposite side!” I lay Read more…
Writing Without Waffle
Making B2B copywriting work
Do you promote your brand, product or service to other businesses? If yes, you’re in B2B rather than B2C (business to consumer). There is a rumour that B2B copywriting should be more formal. Also, that B2B copywriters are hard to Read more…
Writing Without Waffle
#BeKind, four stories and Twitter
I co-hosted Steve Bustin’s ‘Speech Club’ last night, where he deconstructed Michelle Obama’s 2016 Democratic National Convention Speech. One of the things she said was that the Obamas teach their daughters to ‘go high’ when other people ‘go low’. She Read more…
Wordy humour
Things people say when they find out I speak Welsh
Hope you love this six-minute clip as much as I do: P.S. I don’t speak Welsh although I do know a few words. My favourite is Ach-y-fi: an expression of disgust or abhorrence.