According to Wikipedia, an oxymoron is "a figure of speech that combines two normally contradictory terms. Oxymoron is a loanword from Greek oxy ('sharp' or 'pointed') and moros ('dull'). Thus the word oxymoron is itself an oxymoron.
Hmm . . .
Marketing ('sharp, sexy, fun')
Pragmatism ('dull, boring, hard')
My guess is that you know where I'm going with this.
Posted November 11, 2008
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