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When I registered the domain name "www.readin.com" with Network Solutions, I was thinking of "laugh-in". The fact that I did not include a hyphen in my domain name could be attributed to carelessness; or also to the fact that I'm a computer programmer -- running words together without spaces or hyphens is an occupational habit. When I noticed the missing hyphen, I was a little bemused; then I noticed the happy coincidence that the name could also be interpreted as missing an apostrophe -- "readin' writin' and 'rithmetic". I was gratified that evening when my mom wrote me an e-mail asking which one was intended -- I wrote back (a little disingenuously) that the ambiguity was intentional. This morning, 2 weeks later, I noticed another happy ambiguity: "readin" is the opposite of "readout". I'm not sure exactly what this pun means; but it seems useful to me. And it fits in that the site heading is READIN; looks like something from an old computer readout? I'll try and figure out what I can make of this. Also -- if I read a book and get a meaning out of it that you don't get, you might say that I was "reading in" my meaning. |