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Brad Widelock

Brad Widelock
Thank you all for your posts. Everyone has their simple pleasures and, after a day of teaching middle school math, one of mine is reading this board.

Best for 2014,

Brad
 
Pour quoi ça? This year's my son's first in middle school, and we take both the math and the teacher quite seriously.

By the way, in the Disorderly Pedantic Department, doesn't 'oxymoron' properly indicate a figure of speech in which apparent contradiction is used for rhetorical effect, rather than an actual contradiction in terms.

Sharon? Jonathan? Mark?
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Pour quoi ça? This year's my son's first in middle school, and we take both the math and the teacher quite seriously.

By the way, in the Disorderly Pedantic Department, doesn't 'oxymoron' properly indicate a figure of speech in which apparent contradiction is used for rhetorical effect, rather than an actual contradiction in terms.

Sharon? Jonathan? Mark?
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No, an oxymoron is an actual contradiction in terms, like military music, military justice, military intelligence.
 
No, an oxymoron is an actual contradiction in terms, like military music, military justice, military intelligence.
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Used as a figure of speech. It doesn't designate a logical internal contradiction, per se. At least in the references I checked after posting.
 
originally posted by Florida Jim:
I thought "middle school math" was an oxymoron?
Best, Jim
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careful, you never know what might set off a lurker whose new year's resolution was to come up with wine related oxymora
 
originally posted by .sasha:
originally posted by Florida Jim:
I thought "middle school math" was an oxymoron?
Best, Jim
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careful, you never know what might set off a lurker whose new year's resolution was to come up with wine related oxymora
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Magnum of 2007 Ch“teauneuf-du-Pape with sushi.
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
No, an oxymoron is an actual contradiction in terms, like military music, military justice, military intelligence.
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Used as a figure of speech. It doesn't designate a logical internal contradiction, per se. At least in the references I checked after posting.
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Although it's an aesthetic claim to call military music an oxymoron and, alas, a hyperbole, it's not a figure of speech. And the claim is that it does designate an internal contradiction.
 
originally posted by Brad Widelock:
Thanks!Thank you all for your posts. Everyone has their simple pleasures and, after a day of teaching middle school math, one of mine is reading this board.

Best for 2014,

Brad
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Thank you for what you do. From the son of a middle school math teacher.
 
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