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Lotusm50 wrote:
Jos Tesseract wrote:
Lotusm50 wrote:
Jos Tesseract wrote:
...my good Canon lenses...
That's an oxymoron, isn't it?
;-)
Oxymorons are usually two words, not three.
e.g. Pretty Ugly, Marital Bliss, Irate Patient, Fast Autofocus
Ummm. Let me "make haste, slowly" in correcting your understanding of oxymorons. (apologies to Octavian). There is no restriction of the number of words for an oxymoron, per se. Rather it is constructed from 2 different parts of speech or terms that together appear contradictory or incongruous -- usually an adjective and subject (noun), but other combinations are possible. "Usually two words", perhaps, but far from exclusively. In the case presented, "Canon lenses" is the subject (noun). It wouldn't work if it were just "good lenses", and much less of an oxymoron if it were "good Canon". No, "good Canon lenses" is quite acceptable as an oxymoron, if you accept or recognize its premise, of course.
And by the way, lighten up, it was a joke. We really weren't looking for a lesson on language (and it didn't actually require one).
Now excuse me while I go an relax over a plate of jumbo shrimp and welcome deafening silence on this.
You only got it, cause I didn't check this thread fast enough. It'll spoil your deafening silence, but you get the last laugh with that one.
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