Ambiguity of the day

Jul 16th, 2010 | By Stephanie Campisi

From The Age:

One in 61 tested drivers on drugs
MARIS BECK
July 16, 2010
One can only hope these people were trained before making others undergo drug tests.



Ambiguity of the day

May 6th, 2010 | By Stephanie Campisi

Article
STRATEGIES FOR SOLVING THREE FRACTION-RELATED WORD PROBLEMS ON SPEED: A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN CHINESE AND SINGAPOREAN STUDENTS
Chunlian Jiang and Boon Liang Chua



Ambiguous domain name of the day

Mar 10th, 2010 | By Stephanie Campisi

http://www.marrymeabroad.com
Hmm.



Typo of the day

Mar 8th, 2010 | By Stephanie Campisi

. . .Christian demoninations
Hmm.



A couple of ambiguities

Feb 24th, 2010 | By Stephanie Campisi

The 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 Campisi

Taken 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 Campisi

Me: 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 Campisi

From 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 Campisi

http://www.freelanceworkersexchange.com