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need 2 know
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 Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 7:36 pm Post subject: Your favorite oxymoron |
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What's yours? My 2 faves are Rap Singer and Civil War. Let me hear you! 
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friendoken
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| The now defunct "Progressive Conservative" political party of Canada. |
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thrylos
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| Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 2:52 am Post subject: |
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| "virtually spotless", "99% fat/sugar/cholesterol free", "mini supermarket/ superette/ 슈퍼", "cigarettes" (as opposed to cigars) |
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DorkothyParker
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Location: Jeju
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I was going to say "Compassionate conservative" and "intelligent design." The latter applies only when looking at a platypus.
OK, so the latter STILL wouldn't be an oxymoron, but I do like bringing up the platypus. |
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Gillian57
Joined: 14 Oct 2008
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the old standby: Military Intelligence
the new standby: Korea Sparkling |
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oldfatfarang
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| And don't forget the good old, 'Australian intellectual.' |
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harlowethrombey
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| 'Sober Brit' or 'Well-Planned Work Schedule' and 'Tasty Dried Fishead with the creepy eyes still staring right into your soul' |
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Stones1962
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| Military Intelligence |
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beercanman
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| Simply impossible. Pretty ugly. Completely limited. Seriously funny. Happy accident. Deafening silence. Familiar stranger (doubtfully possible) |
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the oak llama
Joined: 05 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 10:21 am Post subject: |
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| tasty cakes. cat fish. [Mod Edit]. literary devices. |
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Ginormousaurus
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| Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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| thrylos wrote: |
| "virtually spotless", "99% fat/sugar/cholesterol free", "cigarettes" (as opposed to cigars) |
How are these oxymoronic? |
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thrylos
Joined: 10 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Ginormousaurus wrote: |
| thrylos wrote: |
| "virtually spotless", "99% fat/sugar/cholesterol free", "cigarettes" (as opposed to cigars) |
How are these oxymoronic? |
If you don't see the worthless lingustic value of these doublespeak terms, then I've got a bridge (or 2) in Brooklyn to sell you...dirt cheap.  |
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shapeshifter
Joined: 29 Nov 2005
Location: Paris
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| Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="thrylos"]
| Ginormousaurus wrote: |
| thrylos wrote: |
| "virtually spotless", "99% fat/sugar/cholesterol free", "cigarettes" (as opposed to cigars) |
How are these oxymoronic? |
If you don't see the worthless lingustic value of these doublespeak terms, then I've got a bridge (or 2) in Brooklyn to sell you...dirt cheap. [/quote
The fact that a word or phrase is meaningless - which I concede the examples you mention are - does not necessarily make it an oxymoron. In fact, a good number of the suggestions listed in this thread are not oxymorons in any sense at all. While I'm at it, what sort of nonsense is "worthless linguistic value"? How can you complain about poor use of language in one breath and then produce a monstrous phrase like that in the next?
Just when you think the intellectual caliber of the posters on here is at an all-time low, there's always someone ready and able to lower the bar that much more. |
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Sector7G
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| Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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| DorkothyParker wrote: |
I was going to say "Compassionate conservative" and "intelligent design." The latter applies only when looking at a platypus.
OK, so the latter STILL wouldn't be an oxymoron, but I do like bringing up the platypus. |
Thanks for the laugh! |
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Sector7G
Joined: 24 May 2008
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Does the term, "increasingly in the minority" count as one? Someone used it a few weeks back on another Dave's thread which was a pretty heated nature v. nurture debate on being gay. In the context it was used it made sense, but standing alone it doesn't.
ox⋅y⋅mo⋅ron
a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in �cruel kindness� or �to make haste slowly. |
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