When words are one's work, and work is (word)play

I've still some crazy English (actually, quirky English) examples to share:

Yesterday, I had asked if a child psychologist is a child. I should have also asked what is a plastic surgeon?

Meanwhile, both flammable and inflammable have the same (literal) meaning, as do valuable and invaluable. And something may be pricey but it may not be priceless.

Someone or something may seem good from far but is far from good (I believe I've posted this before).
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, then are electricians delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed and dry-cleaners depressed? (ditto, this may have been put up before).

Laundry workers could be decreased, eventually becoming -- like the dry-cleaners -- depressed.
Bed-makers could be debunked, baseball players debased, and landscapers deflowered.
Quality control engineers detested? Underwear sales staff debriefed? And will music composers eventually decompose?

Finally... the best yet (with politics currently in the air), is it true that some politicians will be devoted?

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Some relatives once asked me, "What exactly do you do at work?" I thought one aspect of my job -- making newspaper stories more "sexy" -- might be illustrated with two recent examples below:

Example 1 (excerpted raw copy, before my changes)

When Mr Igor Podvalov, 34, came to Singapore two years ago to treat an infection in his thigh, he did not expect to lose half his leg.

It was an outcome that could have been worse: His entire left leg could have been amputated.

But orthopaedic surgeon Mathew Cheng proposed a segmental reattachment surgery. Such a procedure involved an amputation from the left hip to the knee, and reattaching the remaining calf and foot to the hip.
Instead of facing the calf and foot forward - in the same direction as his right leg - it was rotated 180 degrees, with the foot facing backwards.

In this way the ankle, with its ability to bend, functions as the knee. This means that Mr Podvalov’s calf is now his thigh and his ankle is his knee. With a prosthesis, the father of one who works in a shipping company, walks with just a slight limp.

Example 1 (rewritten, after I had decided to highlight the fact that one foot was now facing backwards, post-surgery, in the "intro"):

Mr Igor Podvalov now has one foot facing backwards, and walks with a slight limp.

But the 34-year-old Russian is glad a Singapore surgeon did the unsual operation, since the alternative was to amputate his entire left leg.

Mr Podvalov, a bone cancer patient, came to Singapore two years ago to have an infection in his left thigh treated. Despite multiple operations, the infection did not clear.

He was then referred to orthopaedic surgeon Mathew Cheng, who told him the bad news: that the cancerous limb had to go. Dr Cheng then proposed a segmental reattachment surgery, also known as rotationplasty.

This required only an amputation from the left hip to the knee, not the entire leg.
The calf and foot were then reattached to the hip. But it was necessary to rotate them 180 degrees, with the foot now facing backwards. The ankle, with its ability to bend, now functioned as the knee.

Example 2 (raw copy)

Imagine turning off your washing machine from your mobile phone once the laundry is washed, or receiving instant mobile alerts about which parking spaces in a multistorey carpark have been vacated.

This future is not too far away. A tiny device called the SIM card can be credited for such a huge new-found convenience.

Built-in sensors in your everyday washing machine or the parking meter can detect, say, when the laundry is washed or available carpark spaces and use the embedded SIM card to send the information over the cellular network to users’ smartphones.

Example 2 (rewritten, with a bit of wordplay in the intro)

SIM-ply magical. That’s the not too distant future when you turn off the washing machine from your office.

Or, while driving, get an instant alert that a parking space in a multistorey carpark has just become available. Such a future will literally be in your hand, in your mobile phone actually.

That tiny SIM card inside your smartphone can be harnessed to do much more, like the examples above. All it takes, for instance, to make your washing machine as “smart” as your phone, is to embed a SIM card and sensors into the appliance.