Comments for Rob Chidley – Copywriter

Comment on Word use, abuse and overuse: Whisperer by Rob Chidley

Rob Chidley — Wed, 16 May 2012 10:28:27 +0000

That photo was expertly taken by my friend’s four-year-old daughter. She captured my best side.

Comment on Word use, abuse and overuse: Whisperer by melmenzies

melmenzies — Wed, 16 May 2012 09:51:43 +0000

BTW – I love the look of your website. Very enigmatic that partial male image.

Comment on Word use, abuse and overuse: Whisperer by melmenzies

melmenzies — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:59:44 +0000

I thought you were going to apply the insights gleaned from horse-whispering to human behaviour. And I suppose, in a way, you did. Not, as I thought by highlighting any correlation between the body language of human beings and horses, but in showing us how shallow we are when we latch on to trendy lingo in the hope that it will make us look good.

Comment on Book Choice Parenting Dilemma by hillbilly321

hillbilly321 — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:47:00 +0000

Surely you buy the Marquez, read it to the child in a soothing voice, watch him drift off to sleep, then carry on reading. Sorted.

Comment on KONY 2012 – a decade-long campaign reaches critical mass by Rob Chidley

Rob Chidley — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:17:56 +0000

Thank you Fran, and please do use it. I wanted to add that there is one thing I would strongly criticise about the Kony campaign thus far: one of their slogans is ‘Stop at Nothing’. This leaves far too much room for violence in my opinion. I just wanted that on the record.

Comment on KONY 2012 – a decade-long campaign reaches critical mass by Fran

Fran — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:00:28 +0000

It fascinates me, too, how social media can rapidly spread a campaign like this and then, just as rapidly, those who wish to mock or parody it can do so. Did you see the thing about Angelina Jolie’s leg last week? There was an interesting feature on the BBC website about all the satire produced because of it. Anyway, there are Kony posters up at my school already .. the kids have got onto it very quickly. Another quality article, Rob. Always an intelligent read. Am going to use your previous one (and maybe this one?) when I do ‘Language and Power’ with the A level students which will be in a couple of weeks. We’re currently on ‘Language and Gender’ – also an interesting topic!

Comment on Do you belong? by Fran

Fran — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:05:51 +0000

To be honest, I don’t know why you don’t try and sell this kind of thing to the Business Pages of the papers or something like that. You write so well. And I’m not just saying that because you liked my book cover…… Smiley-emoticon-only-I-don’t-know-how-to-do-smileys-on-comments

Comment on Do you belong? by Rob Chidley

Rob Chidley — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:02:21 +0000

Please do – I’m flattered

Comment on Do you belong? by Fran

Fran — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:33:36 +0000

That’s such a fascinating blog post, Rob. I’m just about to start teaching ‘Language and Power’ to my sixth formers. Can I use it?

Comment on The Messages of 2011 – in review by Lynda Alsford

Lynda Alsford — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:03:15 +0000

I agree with Paul. It does highlight the power and responsibility of the internet. I also remember how the riot clean up started on twitter. We should use words carefully.