useful oxymoron

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Aron Tobias says:

November 3, 2011 at 1:44 am

so not true!
the word “oxymoron” IS AN OXYMORON!!!!!

from the greek words oxus and morus:

oxus meaning sharp and/or pointy
morus meaning dull and/or dulled.

sharply dull: “just war”between opposite words in my opinion.
Aron Tobias says:

November 3, 2011 at 1:53 am

if in the case that there WERE NO oxymorons:

we couldn’t say someone was looking “awfully good” tonight…without looking a fool ourselves!
we couldn’t say that we had “virgin sex” last night…without being called a “gay woman!”
we couldn’t say that something had “complex simplicity”…without being called “sharply dull!”

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