A phrase where the words contradict each other like 'living death' is... |
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Added: October 2003 |
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| Dave - 3rd November 2003 23:05
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| I used to play this game with my young son when we were on holiday. His suggestion: "Camping holiday."
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| tdol - 6th November 2003 23:17
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| I think your son has given the really correct answer. Award him a grade A. ;-))))))))
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| rhapsomatrics - 7th February 2005 19:58
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| When two otherwise similar or synoymous words are used in a somewhat complementary manner to such a degree that the said combination makes a somewhat paradoxical meaning,such is said to be an \example of "oxymoron"...unlike tautology,which can be defined as the repetition of two or more words that should be alternatively used and whose combination makes no semantic sense.Palindrome,on the other hand,is a word the reads the same read from weat to east and from east to west.....dangerous safety(oxymoron)...reason why(tautology)...nun(palinedrome)
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| Lynque - 25th March 2007 05:23
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| as in 'rap music,' perhaps?
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| Jim - 27th February 2008 23:04
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| It's surely not a palindrome because living death can be very different from dead life. I am reminded of one South Park Halloween episode, the one with Korn, where they argued over the difference between "Pirate Ghost", and "Ghost Pirate". Here is what they said "Pirate Ghost would suggest that a pirate died and became a ghost, but a Ghost Pirate is a ghost that later made a concious decision to be a pirate." Thus it cannot be a palindrome.
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