Forum Archive Index - February 2004

["Gavin Treadgold" <gav@rediguana.co.nz>]

I think the word you're after is oxymoron - e.g. military intellegence etc
(not to pick on the military of course, that's just the first of the
examples we had at school that came to mind)

Cheers Gav

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> Subject: Re: [sharechat] snoopy tautology
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> >
> > Ah...but there is such a thing as a safe bet as in:
> >                                    'I bet you Snoopy's example of a
> > tautology is totally incorrect'
> >
>
> As Charlie Brown would say 'Arrrrgh!'.
>
> You are right of course.  'Tautology' means an unnecessary repetition
> whereas what I meant was a 'Contradiction'.   I knew that, or
> at least I
> used to ;-(.  But hopefully the context made it clear that
> the ink in my pen turned to whipped cream, at that point.
>
> SNOOPY
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