Worst examples of ambiguity ?
yannis: Nothing comes to mind on written words, however, last year our HR phoned our sub-continent recruiting agent to arrange 50 tilers for a construction project in the Gulf. Three months later they all arrived, but none of them could lay a single tile. He sent taylors.:)On Air traffic Control see (http://www.scribd.com/doc/19647051/Miscommunications-in-Air-...)I quote a classic!Turkish Airlines said yesterday it had sacked two pilots who had a cockpit punch-up over control-tower instructions on a flight between Bangkok and Istanbul. "Are you deaf? He's is telling something and you are doing something completely different", one reportedly told the other. A junior pilot completed the flight. (Reuters, 7th May 1997)