"Stefan" wrote in message
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Dan Luke schrieb:
In the interest of moving this along, I will guess at your fuzzy parsing
and peculiar definition of "oxymoron", ...

Although English is not my native language, I did understand it

Then perhaps you'd like to explain it.

and the sentence fits perfectly the definition of an oxymoron.

No. An oxymoron is one thing composed of two contrary things that refer to
one another. The sentence contains two things that do not modify or refer
to each other.

Wikipedia: An oxymoron ... is a *figure of speech* that combines two
normally contradictory terms. Oxymoron is a loanword from Greek oxy
("sharp") and moros ("dull"). Thus the word oxymoron is itself an oxymoron.
Oxymorons are a proper subset of the expressions called contradictions in
terms. What distinguishes oxymorons from other paradoxes and contradictions
is that they are used intentionally, for rhetorical effect, and the
contradiction is only apparent, as the combination of terms provides a novel
expression of some concept, such as "cruel to be kind".

Hmm, I see that oxymoron sounds pretty similar to moron.

Really?

Gosh!

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Dan
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