Posted by: promera on: November 19, 2010
Jumbo shrimp. Virtual reality. Old news. Efficient Government Agency. Smart TSA. These are just five examples of a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect. Or rather, an oxymoron. In my Social Studies class we recently learned that the TSA has developed a new screening procedure to protect the flying public (and presumably those on the ground as well). Evidently, you can [...]
