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Originally posted by pure energy
You mean it's an oxymoron like calling a midget TALL. I get your point though.
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Almost.
Technically, calling a midget tall is not in and of its self an oxymoron. It would be a contradiction
You'd actually have to say something like "The tall midget ... "
Oxymoron: A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist.
Contradiction: Inconsistency; discrepancy. Something that contains contradictory elements.