Quote Originally Posted by Poetically Pathetic View Post
*sigh* This thread makes me cry.

As mentioned many times before, an oxymoron is simply something that contradicts itself. Sort of like Rudy Giuliani.

Anyway, it seems that half of you are just making phrases up and calling them oxymorons (Psychokitty and Aerith's Knight in particular, but at least AK has a partial grasp on the subject).

Psychokitty, you say that you understand what an oxymoron is. You clearly do not. "A Crush" is clearly not an oxymoron, neither are most of the nonsensical phrases you posted. Please do some research before you post. It seems you are only posting to raise the post count of this hopefully moribund thread.

Anyway, my favorite oxymoron is any oxymoron that makes sense. Which, of course, is an oxymoron in itself, because oxymorons can seem to make no sense at all if taken out of context.
I know what an oxymoron is, I just like to bend the rules of things, because thats what rules are made for. To be broken.

I had said that "oxymoron" is an oxymoron, but its not because of what you said. It's an oxymoron be ause of its 2 Latin routes. I'll have to relook them up to say which parts of it are.

---Will contenue post after searching on Google-------

An oxymoron (plural oxymora) is a figure of speech that combines two normally contradictory terms. Oxymoron is a Greek term derived from oxy ("sharp") and moros ("dull"). Thus the word oxymoron is itself an oxymoron.
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