Irrationally Commonsensical

"There are only three kinds of people; people who can count and people who can't"

Hey guyz, I was surfing the net yesterday when I caught upon a set of paradoxical phrases and qoutes which were quite enthralling. Though, I have used these phrases many times, I just came to know that these words are special and they have a collective name for themselves. A linguistic contradictions called 'OXYMORONS'.

An Oxymoron is a literary figure of speech in which opposite or contradictory words, terms, phrases or ideas are combined to create a rhetorical effect.The word oxymoron is derived from the Greek for 'pointedly foolish'.

oxys = SHARP, KEEN + moros = FOOLISH

In short, Oxymorons are seriously funny and absurdly logical phrases which we unknowingly know and use lot of them in our day to day speech.

Cool!!..just designed three oxymorons in one sentence. Of course, this is not the longest one. You can create a creative oxymoron and submit it Here.

Check out some of the best oxymorons.

American English - Thank God! I follow British.

Found missing - well!! is he found? or is he missing?

calm wind - chennai's

consistently inconsistent - made for our Indian team

Larger half - completely nonsensical phrase.

and here goes some more..

May I ask you a question?

Thank God!! I am an Atheist.

Always remember you're unique .. just like everyone else!

People have one thing in common: They are all different

WHEW!!!... I am getting clearly confused.

The best oxymoron in tamil I have heard is "aamaa illa" ---> "aamava?..illiya?". Please let me know more if you guyz have some in stock..

Here are some technological oxymorons..

Advanced BASIC

"Press the start button to shutdown"

Hah! Thats the end of my research. The next time you find someone talking like this, catch him red-handed.

well..what do you think about the number of oxymorons used here..If I am right, its almost exactly 20 :-)

see you soon..