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One assumes that it is preferable to invent uncreatively?
This is a contradiction! To invent IS a creative stuff!
Is there a word for such a self-contradictory espression?
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Is there a word for such a self-contradictory espression?
You might also try malapropism, as in: "You lead and we'll precede you."
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Is there a word for such a self-contradictory espression?
And what about the good old oxymoron ?
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Are we oxymorons? No, we just disintegrate language creatively
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>we just disintegrate language creatively in the spirit of postmodernism, I might have said 'we deconstruct language'... 
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Thought I'd chip in with another observation about thread viewing and replying. I may have misread the situation, but lukaszd's reply re oxymoron coming after shanks' reply to the same effect suggests to me that lukaszd was viewing the thread in flat mode and failed to see that shanks had changed the subject of the message to contain the answer to the question without actually using the word oxymoron in the body of his reply.
I find this happens to me a lot. In my favoured flat mode, my eye skips from one message body to the next. Sometimes days, weeks or months later I'll get quite a surprise to find a number of interesting or witty post subjects that I had missed, even though I read the message at the time. I unearth them when I switch (rarely) to Threaded Mode, or use Search.
So there are lessons for viewers of both persuasions:
1. flatliners beware - you may be missing some of the fun, and
2. all posters - try to repeat the subject, if it's important, within the body for the sake of flatliners.
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In reply to:
So there are lessons for viewers of both persuasions:
1. flatliners beware - you may be missing some of the fun, and
2. all posters - try to repeat the subject, if it's important, within the body for the sake of flatliners.
This will give us threadomorons and flatomorons. Personally, I'm a flatomoron and the two terms together (in this instance) equal each other, making me a tautomoron. Sorry, just doodling, really.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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repeating the subject
Even that doesn't help sometimes - I've just found an entire subthread in miscellany I missed completely - I'm now alternating between being a flat and a threaded moron!
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Jackie has been having problems with her server. It seems the connection to AWAD keeps crashing/stalling. I miss
her. Who else is going to wallow in the gutter with me? I have to carry the ladies side all by myself . Ah well,
noblesse oblige....the rest of us ladies now relegated to chopped liver 
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Glad to see you back, Mav!
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