The English language is a peculiar beast but wonderfully supple at creating dramatic, even funny, prose.
Take an oxymoron for example. It comes from a Greek phrase that translates into “pointedly stupid.” But the popular notion is that the word refers to a person of severely challenged intelligence lying under an oxygen tent.
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