-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 OK. I'll bite:
I searched high and low for a definition of "proper oxymoron" as opposed to"improper oxymoron" I found: a) Oxymoron (Logic): A logical expression that contradicts itself (see Epimenides: All people from Crete are lying). b) A rhetorical construct, figure of speech, that combines contradicting or incongruous terms: fighting for peace a special case of b) is called "contradictio in adjecto", as in ~ thundering silence ~ old boy ~ mournful optimist We even have a funny German poem which is a long string of oxymora: (The text suffers a lot in translation) It was a dark and stormy night the sun was shining with all it's might green was the grass on the snow covered ground when a carriage raced slowly around the corner of a straight road etc etc etc Thus my question: Why should paper tablecloth, or giant shrimp, or the well known military intelligence, be "improper" forms of oxymora? Where would I find a definition? - -- ~ With kind Regards |\ _,,,---,,_ ~ ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;, ~ Volker Bandke |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' ~ (BSP GmbH) '---''(_/--' `-'\_) ~ Organization is the enemy of improvisation. ~ (Another Wisdom from my fortune cookie jar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCv8soHm2sbKEAXTARAvhlAKDVZYJRrwBW/q4d+LajVUvFWdKF9ACgzePO 1sY1jl06rwGa4d71He1cZ74= =t/ej -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
