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not sure this is an oxymoron; this is speaking as someone who worked on a math. phys. problem my senior year (the abelian sandpile model)
* ''[[salutary neglect]]'' - one of the [[Essay:Best New Conservative Words|Best New Conservative Terms]]
* ''[[salutary neglect]]'' - one of the [[Essay:Best New Conservative Words|Best New Conservative Terms]]
* ''graffiti artist''
* ''graffiti artist''
In the past, rhetoric and elocution were standard school subjects and students were taught long lists of technical names of figures of speech and their meaning. ''Oxymoron'' was one of these, along with ''[[simile]]'', ''[[metaphor]]'', ''[[metonymy]]'', etc. True oxymoron is relatively rare; one well-known example occurs in [[Tennyson]]'s ''Idylls of the King:''
In the past, rhetoric and elocution were standard school subjects and students were taught long lists of technical names of figures of speech and their meaning. ''Oxymoron'' was one of these, along with ''[[simile]]'', ''[[metaphor]]'', ''[[metonymy]]'', etc. True oxymoron is relatively rare; one well-known example occurs in [[Tennyson]]'s ''Idylls of the King:''