{"id":10953,"date":"2011-02-07T13:48:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T13:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/02\/07\/pseudo-oxymorons\/"},"modified":"2011-02-07T13:48:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T13:48:07","slug":"pseudo-oxymorons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/02\/07\/pseudo-oxymorons\/","title":{"rendered":"Pseudo-Oxymorons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Some are puzzled by &#39;civil war.&#39; How can a war be civil? A drummer of a band I was in stumbled over &#39;monopoly.&#39; How can many be one? Exercise: find more examples of pseudo-oxymorons, and explain why they&#0160; only appear to be oxymorons. Don&#39;t confuse a pseudo-oxymoron with such&#0160; attempts at humor as &#39;postal service&#39; and &#39;President Obama.&#39;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Some consider &#39;jumbo shrimp&#39; to be an oxymoron, but why? Can&#39;t there be big shrimp? I would classify &#39;jumbo shrimp&#39; as a pseudo-oxymoron. Someone who considers this an oxymoron perhaps does not grasp that a big F can be a small G, just as a small H can be a big G. (A big shrimp is a small animal, while a small elephant is a big animal.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Now if I were serious about this post, I would essay a definition of &#39;oxymoron.&#39; But I think I&#39;ll take a nap instead.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some are puzzled by &#39;civil war.&#39; How can a war be civil? A drummer of a band I was in stumbled over &#39;monopoly.&#39; How can many be one? Exercise: find more examples of pseudo-oxymorons, and explain why they&#0160; only appear to be oxymorons. Don&#39;t confuse a pseudo-oxymoron with such&#0160; attempts at humor as &#39;postal service&#39; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/02\/07\/pseudo-oxymorons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pseudo-Oxymorons&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}