I would try to avoid them in academic and formal writing, but they're very common in most contexts. They're just funny when you stop to think about the contradiction in their meaning.
I want to thank you especially for those explanations that you write under your videos like subtitles because sometimes I can't understand what you say due to my own accent but when I read I get it. Thank you for these useful videos. Greetings from Turkey 😊
Yeah, like when should I put “load whisper”? Or “alone in a crowd”? It’s hard for a young writer like me to try and put them in a way it works. Dose that make any sense? No? Oh whatever.
How about Tuesday, at 7:30 pm? 1. Imagine an unhappy couple at opposite ends of a table having dinner. They are alone together. The physical distance separating them is emblematic of their disunion. 2. Crash landing: Either a plane lands safely, or it falls out of sky and crashes into the earth, usually with no survivors. But a crash landing is an emer- gency procedure, with both a crash and a landing occurring together. About ten years ago, Captain Sully crash landed his passenger plane in the Hudson River in New York with no loss of life. At take off from La Guardia Airport in NYC, his jet through flew into a flock of birds, which caused both of the jet's engines to fail. That he was able to safely crash land his plane with no loss of life was a minor miracle. There is a recent Tom Hanks film about this brave and competent pilot. 3. Waking nightmare: A night- mare is a horrible dream that can only occur when you are asleep. If you are awake, then you cannot have a nightmare. There might be some exceptions though. You could say that for many Americans, the Trump Admin- istration is a waking night- mare. 4. Devout atheist: Generally speak- ing, a devout person is a be- liever in God, who closely observes religious customs. An atheist does not believe in God. Some famous atheists are Fredrich Nietzsche, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hutchins, and Penn & Teller. Say you wit- messed a debate about the existence of God between the Pope and Sir Richard Dawkins. If you thought Dawkins won the debate, you might say about him that he is as devout an atheist as the Pope is a devout Christian.
"alone together" in Rusian has an equivalent - "alone in a crowd" (одинокий в толпе). You can see a lot of people around you but you are alone anyway... =(
Actually alone together means that you are with someone else, PHYSICALLY away from the crowd. Like if you are with your girlfriend at a party away from everyone else is then you two are, "alone together"
How u assumed that awfully good is oxymoron....oxymoron doesn't mean that u put two contradictary word together and it will work out....haha that's seriously funny
@@dakilla5105 you can’t renew something by renewing the eyes upon which something is gazed. Therefore it is an oxymoron. A brand new owner doesn’t equal a brand new thing
I always thought oxymorons were absurd. Thank you so much for helping me see the number of times I've used them, never knowing I've used them.( I'm not sure that makes sense!!)
I like to learn new things. This is the best way to learn when it is not boring. You do interesting topics and thank you for it. Greetings from Poland.
Thanks a lot dear sir. I saw some videos about oxymoron but I cannot undustand properly.Through your video, I get a clear concept. Greeting from Bangladesh.
In the case of jumbo shrimp, "shrimp" is refering to a type of animal and not necessarily a size. My favorite is "unbiased oppinion". Gets you thinking.
And also a crash landing is also not a oxymoron. The reason why I said this is because crash landing is a type of landing in which a plane, or aircraft is unable to control itself upon hitting the ground.
Oxymoronic speech is a contradictory pleonastic redundancy to look like a technical approach one. It is highly based on deconstruction, which is an euphemism for constructive behaviors and practices.
BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ... We have given our hearts away, asordid boon! Sordid refers to something which is dirty, vile, or selfish. Boon is something that is beneficial, helpful, or considered a blessing. The use of the two in conjunction form an oxymoron.
An interesting topic but you haven't actually explained what these expressions mean together and when they can be used. Explaining two words that make them separately is not enough. That's something we can look up in a dictionary. Good effort, though.
I'll give more examples in the future. Thanks for the feedback! You're the second or third person to mention this, so it's obviously something I needed to focus on here.
We have given our hearts away, asordid boon! Sordid refers to something which is dirty, vile, or selfish. Boon is something that is beneficial, helpful, or considered a blessing. The use of the two in conjunction form an oxymoron. ....The following line appears in WilliamWordsworth's poem "The World is Too Much With Us": We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! Sordidrefers to something which is dirty, vile, or selfish. Boon is something that is beneficial, helpful, or considered a blessing.
The following line appears in WilliamWordsworth's poem "The World is Too Much With Us": We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! Sordid refers to something which is dirty, vile, or selfish. Boon is something that is beneficial, helpful, or considered a blessing.
Its apparent that your request was literally acknowledged, although minor , was bypassed successful only to focus on the importance of how completely unimportant this whole thing must of been all in its self. ( hopfully this response was so moronic it actually made some sense haha). Lol wow it's hard to think like that . Back to back to back ...to back.
I never heard of that word in my own language, Portuguese (in Portuguese is almost the same word, we call it "oxímoro"). Very nice to learn that from English first.
Most oximorans do work but just seem to be rather humorous due to the contradictions of the words used: There really are crash landings, working vacations, and jumbo shrimp. Things like "exact estimate," "original copy," and "growing smaller" don't work because you cannot actually have such things. For me the only true oximorans are the ones like those that don't work. I think oximoran is usually meant to be a pejorative term for expressions that shouldn't be used...like "twice as small," where you would say, "That's oxymoronic. How can anything be twice as small?"
I didn't know they actually exist in English too, we've studied them in French last year ^-^ but Thanks.That's one great explanation, keep up the good work. :D
News can definitely be old, when people say, “That is old news”, they are explaining that that information is no longer current, not an oxymoron at all, and you can totally tell he knows that too because he spend like 5 seconds on that one and as soon as he said, “yesterday’s news” he realizes he better more on form that one! 🤣 but the others one he did a good on and were definitely oxymorons.
Oxymoron of the day > "I LOVE YOU" "You" which denotes "I" depends on self perception. The "I" always .... wants something. "Wants" to the self, means needing something to alleviate a sense of need. True need > food, water, shelter from the environment. Everything else is extra. Soooooooo, "I LOVE YOU" means I want something from you.
I would love to make this happen, but me and the EngVid team do these videos in our free time, which isn't a lot. Maybe one day the website will be big enough so I can focus just on creating content for it, but for now, 2 videos a month is what most of us can manage.
I think we can have an unbiased opinion, but not an unbiased argument, because they are different, opinion is something you guess, and argument is something you try to prove with theses and facts
“Once again” this video is awesome
haha that's a good one
Nice one.
Once again is not an oxy moron. You said once this video is awesome so you're saying it once again, this video is awesome
Awesomely bad
Lmao
The Great Depression. I enjoyed the English lesson Alex
constantly changing
Nice one!
aren't they just changing but constantly. Different from 'constant changing'.
Everything you said in this video is unbelievably true. My grateful is currently endless.
"I'm busy doing nothing."
"That's pretty ugly."
RUDE
Are oxymorons recommended in academic or formal writings? Thanks for this wonderful lesson, Alex!
I would try to avoid them in academic and formal writing, but they're very common in most contexts. They're just funny when you stop to think about the contradiction in their meaning.
I want to thank you especially for those explanations that you write under your videos like subtitles because sometimes I can't understand what you say due to my own accent but when I read I get it. Thank you for these useful videos. Greetings from Turkey 😊
I'm glad you've found a way to learn from the videos!
I would like to know when to use each one.
YEY We use them all the time though.
Yeah, like when should I put “load whisper”? Or “alone in a crowd”? It’s hard for a young writer like me to try and put them in a way it works. Dose that make any sense? No? Oh whatever.
How about Tuesday, at 7:30 pm?
1. Imagine an unhappy couple
at opposite ends of a table
having dinner. They are alone
together. The physical distance
separating them is emblematic
of their disunion.
2. Crash landing: Either a plane
lands safely, or it falls out of
sky and crashes into the earth,
usually with no survivors. But
a crash landing is an emer-
gency procedure, with both
a crash and a landing occurring
together. About ten years ago,
Captain Sully crash landed his
passenger plane in the Hudson
River in New York with no loss
of life. At take off from
La Guardia Airport in NYC,
his jet through flew into a flock
of birds, which caused both
of the jet's engines to fail.
That he was able to safely
crash land his plane with no
loss of life was a minor
miracle. There is a recent Tom
Hanks film about this brave
and competent pilot.
3. Waking nightmare: A night-
mare is a horrible dream
that can only occur when
you are asleep. If you are
awake, then you cannot have
a nightmare. There might be
some exceptions though.
You could say that for many
Americans, the Trump Admin-
istration is a waking night-
mare.
4. Devout atheist: Generally speak-
ing, a devout person is a be-
liever in God, who closely
observes religious customs.
An atheist does not believe
in God. Some famous atheists
are Fredrich Nietzsche, Richard
Dawkins, Christopher Hutchins,
and Penn & Teller. Say you wit-
messed a debate about the
existence of God between the
Pope and Sir Richard Dawkins.
If you thought Dawkins won the
debate, you might say about
him that he is as devout an
atheist as the Pope is a devout
Christian.
You are the only choice I got for English grammar
"alone together" in Rusian has an equivalent - "alone in a crowd" (одинокий в толпе). You can see a lot of people around you but you are alone anyway... =(
Actually alone together means that you are with someone else, PHYSICALLY away from the crowd. Like if you are with your girlfriend at a party away from everyone else is then you two are, "alone together"
Muhilan Selvaa thanks for explanation
Muhilan Selvaa точно?
Oh so sad T_T
Солёное Радио Oxymoron!
My son is *oxymoronic* ...
He is my *Little Big* boy!
But he denies it; “No daddy, i am your Big boy!” 😀😀✌️
I do love your lessons! The more I come here, the more I learn from you!
Awesome, thank you!
Thanks
Alex is the best as always.
Got it . Thanks For explaining it.
I really need this at school so ty
A way you taught people is excellent
You are an awfully good teacher. Was that ok? If not I'm really sorry. LOL.
Haha. You got it.
Johnny Valencia i don't underdtand how this work if don't make sense,but in awfully good teacher is the teacher who get better than before?
Johnny Valencia
awfully good. I see. I see. I thought it for a second. Does it make sense?
How u assumed that awfully good is oxymoron....oxymoron doesn't mean that u put two contradictary word together and it will work out....haha that's seriously funny
Looks like u got it!!!,🤣
Thank God I’m an atheist.
Jaws Soledad so really i'm wondering which god are thanking🌚
Oxymoron!
@Marisa 07 R/whooosh
@Marisa 07 sarcasm?
hey me too
I’ve just bought myself a brand-new antique
Its brand new to you because you've never seen it but its still an antique so that works
@@dakilla5105 you can’t renew something by renewing the eyes upon which something is gazed. Therefore it is an oxymoron. A brand new owner doesn’t equal a brand new thing
you are the best teacher that's needed where knowledge is missing
This expression has existed for how long? I had never heard about it before this Fall. Now its use has exploded completely.
Thank you for your best videos, Alex
You are teaching me what I was supposed to learn in primary school. This stuff is important for your future, kids.
Excellent video ! Your list of oxymorons is excellent also. Thank you for sharing and teaching.
Thank Alex, I fell that improve my knowledges whith your excellents english video class.
I´m from Ecuador.
Thanks for studying with EngVid, Andres! I'm always happy to hear that students are benefiting from our lessons.
Thanks for this video teacher👩🏫 I'm from 🇮🇳 india🇮🇳
"Living thing"
Well done, Alex. You're in uncharted waters, breaking new ground.
Wonderful sir... !!!
Teaching English was once something I tried to assist with.
Requires repeated listening to remember. Thaks teacher.
My pleasure! I hope it’s useful. :)
It was really useful as well as funny .
Glad you liked it
I always thought oxymorons were absurd. Thank you so much for helping me see the number of times I've used them, never knowing I've used them.( I'm not sure that makes sense!!)
This Lesson is ridiculously Funny !! :D
I'm glad you liked it.
I like to learn new things. This is the best way to learn when it is not boring. You do interesting topics and thank you for it. Greetings from Poland.
Thanks a lot, Robert!
Very well explained sir. Thank you sir
you're an Amazing English Teacher! thank you
My pleasure. Thanks for checking it out.
Honest Politician 😯
Thanks for everything
Any time!
Awesome 👍 CLARIFIED***
Awfully useful this lesson. Thanks.
Thank you, a great refresher.
Thanks a lot dear sir. I saw some videos about oxymoron but I cannot undustand properly.Through your video, I get a clear concept. Greeting from Bangladesh.
Too good
Good explanation
In the case of jumbo shrimp, "shrimp" is refering to a type of animal and not necessarily a size. My favorite is "unbiased oppinion". Gets you thinking.
Your explanation reminded me of my college English prof. It's elaborately simple
If I use one of them for a example..which one should I use?
Im from India i love your explanation ❤ cleare explanation thank you ❤
Thank you teacher I really enjoy and my English is improve with your lessons ... I am an Arabic by the way
And also a crash landing is also not a oxymoron. The reason why I said this is because crash landing is a type of landing in which a plane, or aircraft is unable to control itself upon hitting the ground.
I also disagree with the idea that many of these examples are contradictory in any way.
Oxymoronic speech is a contradictory pleonastic redundancy to look like a technical approach one. It is highly based on deconstruction, which is an euphemism for constructive behaviors and practices.
BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ... We have given our hearts away, asordid boon! Sordid refers to something which is dirty, vile, or selfish. Boon is something that is beneficial, helpful, or considered a blessing. The use of the two in conjunction form an oxymoron.
It's really very helpful for us thank you so much sir
Great man love ur vids cleared my probs even teachers can't sort this out I guess at least with me!🤣
Thanks you helpt my brother alot👊
That's fantastic to hear. Thanks, Jodindra!
An interesting topic but you haven't actually explained what these expressions mean together and when they can be used. Explaining two words that make them separately is not enough. That's something we can look up in a dictionary. Good effort, though.
I'll give more examples in the future. Thanks for the feedback! You're the second or third person to mention this, so it's obviously something I needed to focus on here.
English Lessons with Alex (engVid AlexESLvid) freezer burn means very cold?
We have given our hearts away, asordid boon! Sordid refers to something which is dirty, vile, or selfish. Boon is something that is beneficial, helpful, or considered a blessing. The use of the two in conjunction form an oxymoron. ....The following line appears in WilliamWordsworth's poem "The World is Too Much With Us": We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! Sordidrefers to something which is dirty, vile, or selfish. Boon is something that is beneficial, helpful, or considered a blessing.
The following line appears in WilliamWordsworth's poem
"The World is Too Much With Us": We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
Sordid refers to something which is dirty, vile, or selfish.
Boon is something that is beneficial, helpful, or considered a blessing.
@@engvidAlex thankyou.
I was tired of oxymoron but now it is cristally clear
Thankyou very much teacher 🙂
This is awfully nice of you.many thanks
Thx for the support, I am struggling with this at school
PlEASE CONSIDER MY REQUEST:
Can you please upload a video on how to use the word 'APPARENTLY'.
Its apparent that your request was literally acknowledged, although minor , was bypassed successful only to focus on the importance of how completely unimportant this whole thing must of been all in its self. ( hopfully this response was so moronic it actually made some sense haha). Lol wow it's hard to think like that . Back to back to back ...to back.
I'm really excited when I watching your videos . I am not native English. I'm Arabi guy, so you're the best teacher for me! Thanks!
Any time!
Thanks a lot Alex! Although these oxymorons don't seem logical, we can use them daily. Right?
Yes! They're common phrases that are contradictions when you stop to think about them.
What a beast, you have a simple and easy definition and have good examples
Enlightening
Enjoyed studying 👍🏻
Helped me doing my HW 😁😁😁👍🏻👍🏻
You're an Excellent teacher !
helped a lot tanks soo much Alex 🙂
Thank u so much sir for making this video 🙏🙏
Despite that, I'm a beginner in English, I understand your every singl word, it's so great!!
That's great to hear! :) I'm glad it's easy to understand.
Hi thenks for your quality work. One question, is climb down an oximoron?
Yes
Sorry it took 2 years to reply
great explanation, thankss
"Definitely maybe"
--- Derek Thomas
Digging the Ultramantis T-Shirt :-)
You're probably the only person who will ever get that. Thanks for noticing!
Thanks for this lesson mr Alex
Very help full
"Found missing."
I should sue you for that because I spat my tea all over the keyboard laughing :D
Damn. I’m sorry! I hope it survived!
@@engvidAlex Lol. Yeah it's fine. It really took me off guard that one :D
You cant forget remembering me in your conclusion. Lol
Sar i am your big frand my County Bangladesh love your all class
you are a good teacher,your teaching is very helpful for me
I'm glad to hear that. Thanks!
I never heard of that word in my own language, Portuguese (in Portuguese is almost the same word, we call it "oxímoro"). Very nice to learn that from English first.
Thank you
these videos are so good
Excellent explanation
Glad it was helpful!
Most oximorans do work but just seem to be rather humorous due to the contradictions of the words used: There really are crash landings, working vacations, and jumbo shrimp. Things like "exact estimate," "original copy," and "growing smaller" don't work because you cannot actually have such things. For me the only true oximorans are the ones like those that don't work. I think oximoran is usually meant to be a pejorative term for expressions that shouldn't be used...like "twice as small," where you would say, "That's oxymoronic. How can anything be twice as small?"
I didn't know they actually exist in English too, we've studied them in French last year ^-^ but Thanks.That's one great explanation, keep up the good work. :D
Yep! I assume they exist in many or most languages.
Thanks a lot for your lessons, Alex.
My pleasure!
@@engvidAlexhi….
News can definitely be old, when people say, “That is old news”, they are explaining that that information is no longer current, not an oxymoron at all, and you can totally tell he knows that too because he spend like 5 seconds on that one and as soon as he said, “yesterday’s news” he realizes he better more on form that one! 🤣 but the others one he did a good on and were definitely oxymorons.
Oxymoron of the day > "I LOVE YOU"
"You" which denotes "I" depends on self perception.
The "I" always .... wants something.
"Wants" to the self, means needing something to alleviate a sense of need.
True need > food, water, shelter from the environment.
Everything else is extra.
Soooooooo, "I LOVE YOU" means I want something from you.
VERY GOOD!!
Thanks a lot. It would be nice to see your lessons more frequently.
I would love to make this happen, but me and the EngVid team do these videos in our free time, which isn't a lot. Maybe one day the website will be big enough so I can focus just on creating content for it, but for now, 2 videos a month is what most of us can manage.
Thanks! You're a bittersweet Alex. An awesome English lesson.
Ha. Thanks, Kamo. Have a great weekend!
Wow such a good teacher i understand now thanks!
thanks a lot teacher ...
You're welcome.
Thanks!
Such a bittersweet experience. :D - I am personally a big fan of the phrase: Act naturally.
That's a good one!
I think we can have an unbiased opinion, but not an unbiased argument, because they are different, opinion is something you guess, and argument is something you try to prove with theses and facts
Thanks 🥰🥰🥰