oxyMORONS :)

I really like the different aspects of English language..the various figures of speech, the etymology of words, puns, oxymorons, alliteration (ah!), satire, rhetoric..everything... But today I will pounce upon 'oxymorons' :)..

My liking for oxymorons can be testified from 3 things

1) The link to my blog itself is an oxymoron

2) The title 'Forgotten memories' is an oxymoron too

3) One of my blogs' title 'Silent thunder' is also an oxymoron :)

The thing I and mostly everyone else in this world wonders is how can two different words with entirely contradictory meanings unite to form a new phrase..whether or not this new phrase makes sense!!

I've always noticed lotsa bloopers in English..like many people say "its almost done", now if u notice almost n done don't fit together, they are oxymorons!!!!

A more funnier one is 'Bad luck'...and the one you encounter in daily life 'Liquid gas'....and if you go to a history school you may find students studying 'Contemporary history' or probably 'Modern history' !!!!

When someone asks you, 'Hey, whatsup?', you mostly reply 'nothing much' without noticing that its an oxymoron too :)

To mention a few more:

practice test
pretty bad
soft rock
all alone
graduate student (this is the best)
real potential
virtual reality

So you see how often you use oxymorons without even noticing it!!!!