A couple of ambiguities
Feb 24th, 2010 | By Stephanie CampisiThe Age shows off its usual quality writing*:
Building unions fined $1.3m for legal breaches
But if they were legal. . .?
‘He jumped on his head with both feet’
How very agile of him.
*Yes, that’s a deliberate ambiguity.
Call for Polyphony 7 pre-orders
Feb 20th, 2010 | By Stephanie CampisiTaken from the Wheatland Press blog. Note that Polyphony 7 will contain my short story ‘The Possibility of Love’.
In 2002, the Polyphony anthology series debuted. Conceived as a short fiction venue for stories that would skate gracefully across the boundaries of science fiction, fantasy, magic realism, and literary fiction, it was quickly recognized as the standard [...]
Mondegreen of the day
Feb 17th, 2010 | By Stephanie CampisiMe: Hmm, my sister should think about becoming an informatics nurse.
Jono: A nymphomatics nurse?
Typo of the day
Feb 17th, 2010 | By Stephanie Campisi“Allopathetic medicine”
Oh dear. Hopefully I think before I speak more often than I apparently think before I type.
Typo of the day
Feb 12th, 2010 | By Stephanie CampisiFrom a WIP:
“sucked up by the vortext. . .”
Clearly, I’m the queen of the portmanteau neologism.
And also:
There were even those who refused to set food on what could be considered the ground here. . .
Ambiguous web address of the day
Feb 9th, 2010 | By Stephanie Campisihttp://www.freelanceworkersexchange.com
Ambiguity of the day
Feb 9th, 2010 | By Stephanie CampisiFrom The Age:
Breaking News
6:45AM Wheels of bus packed with kids fall off
Typo of the day
Feb 2nd, 2010 | By Stephanie CampisiThis one was me, writing an informative (ha!) article:
. . .hygiene laws are pretty sick
iPad
Jan 28th, 2010 | By Stephanie CampisiPersonally, I think they should have called it the Apple Scroll.