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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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Back to the future

Is "back to the future" an oxymoron?
  

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Anonymous Is "back to the future" an oxymoron? oxymoron: A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist. It certainly seems like it.

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous Is "back to the future" an oxymoron?
  • oxymoron: A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist.
  • It certainly seems like it.
  • What do you think?
  • CJ
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AnonymousIs "back to the future" an oxymoron?
oxymoron: A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist.

It certainly seems like it. What do you think?

CJ
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CalifJimWhat do you think?
I think that it is. How can one be back in the point of time which has never occurred?
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AnonymousI think (that) it is. How can one be back in the to a point of in time which has never not yet occurred?
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AnonymousI think that it is.
Right. It contains a contradiction.

CJ
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