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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Schizophrenic Robert Martin exposed at http://www.netscum.net/martinr0.html
Date: 1997/06/17
Date: 1997-06-17T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.866541233@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5o4udr$g5j$2@news2.digex.net


Elliot says

<<Robert Dewar (dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu) wrote:
: Elliot said 
: 
: <<right wing pragmatist software engineering>>
 
: What an *extremely* odd phrase. Definitely a candidate for amusing news group
: oddity of the day :-)
 
Fine, but it definitely isn't an oxymoron.>>



An oxymoron is the juxtaposition of terms or concepts for poetic or
rhetorical effect that would normally be considered inconsistent (e.g.
"deafening silence").

Actually I find the peculiar phrase here definitely fulfills this 
definition, although I realize the original writer might not consider
it to be a contradiction in terms (which is what I would guess he thinks
oxymoron means -- even some dictionaries agree with him these days, which
is a pity -- I hate to see a nice word like this devalued :-)





  reply	other threads:[~1997-06-17  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-06-17  0:00 Schizophrenic Robert Martin exposed at http://www.netscum.net/martinr0.html Ell
1997-06-17  0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-06-23  0:00   ` John G. Volan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1997-06-22  0:00 Ell
1997-06-17  0:00 Ell
1997-06-16  0:00 Ell
1997-06-16  0:00 ` Billy Chambless
1997-06-16  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-15  0:00 Ell
1997-06-15  0:00 Ell
1997-06-15  0:00 ` Dean Roddey
1997-06-07  0:00 Ell
1997-06-08  0:00 ` L. M. Rappaport
1997-06-11  0:00 ` Robert C. Martin
1997-06-11  0:00   ` D. Erway
1997-06-11  0:00 ` Robert C. Martin
1997-06-14  0:00   ` Dean Roddey
1997-06-03  0:00 lucifer Anonymous Remailer
1997-06-01  0:00 lucifer Anonymous Remailer
1997-06-01  0:00 ` Robert C. Martin
1997-06-01  0:00   ` L. M. Rappaport
1997-06-01  0:00     ` Robert C. Martin
1997-06-06  0:00       ` Alan Brain
1997-06-01  0:00 ` Robert C. Martin
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