{"id":19089,"date":"2014-12-18T04:16:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T04:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/?p=19089"},"modified":"2024-04-03T13:14:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T07:44:47","slug":"oxymoron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/oxymoron\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxymoron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Oxymoron.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19108\" src=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Oxymoron.jpg\" alt=\"Oxymoron\" width=\"254\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aah!! I know the word &#8216;moron&#8217; must have grabbed your attention. You must be wondering maybe it is just another category of morons&#8230;\u00a0NO! Oxymoron is not really a moron, but technically nothing less either.<\/p>\n<p>An oxymoron is usually defined as a phrase in which two opposite meanings are brought together.&#8221;The true beauty of oxymorons,&#8221; says Richard Watson Todd, &#8220;is that, unless we sit back and really think, we happily accept them as normal English.&#8221; You might have come across them many times in your life without realising that these phrases got a name. Here are a few funny oxymorons:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px\">Beginning with the most common one &#8216;<strong><em>Original Copies<\/em><\/strong>&#8216;. Now will you please tell me do you need the original document or the Xerox copy!?!<\/span><\/li>\n<li>You might have come across this one at airport or in shopping malls when the alien living inside the speaker shouts &#8220;<strong><em>Found<\/em><em>\u00a0Missing<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;. Really I&#8217;d want to ask Mr.Speaker if he could explain if it was found after it went missing or we are supposed to find it as it is presently missing!?!<\/li>\n<li>When laughing really hard we sometimes exclaim &#8220;This is<strong><em> seriously funny<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;. So I would like to tell all such Mr.\/Ms Brouhaha that your dialogue plus behaviour actually conveys that whatever it was, it was so serious that you lost your mind and began laughing. The stress buster syndrome I guess!<\/li>\n<li>A thing that you would have used many times &#8220;<em><strong> Plastic Glasses<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;. Now if it is glass then how can it be plastic because as far as I know these are two different things!<\/li>\n<li>Another one that comes along very often while you explain yourself &#8220;It was an<strong><em> open secret<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;. Please explain me that if it was a secret than how was it open!?!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whoa!! After all this confusion I can<em> exactly estimate<\/em> that my brain has stopped working&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/Life-Skills\">Click here for government certification in Life Skills<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aah!! I know the word &#8216;moron&#8217; must have grabbed your attention. You must be wondering maybe it is just another category of morons&#8230;\u00a0NO! Oxymoron is not really a moron, but technically nothing less either. An oxymoron is usually defined as a phrase in which two opposite meanings are brought together.&#8221;The true beauty of oxymorons,&#8221; says&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":313,"featured_media":19108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1531],"tags":[1443],"class_list":["post-19089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-skills","tag-oxymoron"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Oxymoron - Vskills Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What is Oxymoron? An oxymoron is usually defined as a phrase in which two opposite meanings are brought together. 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