Ambiguity of the day
Jul 16th, 2010 | By Stephanie CampisiFrom 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 CampisiArticle
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 Campisihttp://www.marrymeabroad.com
Hmm.
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