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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Schizophrenic Robert Martin exposed at
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Date: 1997/06/17
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Date: 1997-06-17T00:00:00+00:00
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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 :-)