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More fun and games on the LUAS Red Line (with added racism)
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I do hope you were joking ... An oxymoron (plural oxymora or oxymorons) (from Greek ὀξύμωρον, "sharp dull") is a figure of speech that combines contradictory terms
I think this might be one for the Spell Czechs.
I had initially assumed that an oxymoron was restricted to word pairs but I had a look at the wiki and saw that this is not the case.
After reading more, I'm still not sure that the phrase was an oxymoron, though. What was said was contradictory but not really a figure of speech.A figure of speech is the use of a word or a phrase, which ascend from its literal interpretation. It can also be a special repetition, arrangement or omission of words with literal meaning, or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it, as in idiom, metaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, or synecdoche. Figures of speech often provide emphasis, freshness of expression, or clarity. However, clarity may also suffer from their use, as any figure of speech introduces an ambiguity between literal and figurative interpretation. A figure of speech is sometimes called a rhetorical figure or a locution.
I also had a look at the wiki page for contradiction in terms (it's a pretty cráp page though):Contradictio in terminis (Latin for contradiction in terms) refers to a combination of words whose meanings are in conflict with one another. Examples are "liquid ice", "settled science", and "square circle".
If the contradiction is intentional (rhetorical or poetic), then one can speak of an oxymoron.
I'm not sure that the posters use of the contradictory terms was intentional or that they formed part of a figure of speech.
Still, I must admit again that I knew nothing of all the above until I went digging.
I also think that this is my most pathetic post to date and I've posted plenty of shíte here.0 -
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mcmoustache wrote: »I think this might be one for the Spell Czechs.
I had initially assumed that an oxymoron was restricted to word pairs but I had a look at the wiki and saw that this is not the case.
After reading more, I'm still not sure that the phrase was an oxymoron, though. What was said was contradictory but not really a figure of speech.
I also had a look at the wiki page for contradiction in terms (it's a pretty cráp page though):
I'm not sure that the posters use of the contradictory terms was intentional or that they formed part of a figure of speech.
Still, I must admit again that I knew nothing of all the above until I went digging.
I also think that this is my most pathetic post to date and I've posted plenty of shíte here.
No, what was pathetic was me being smart saying I knew how to use capital letters-that was not called for and I apologise.
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I vote for when the Red line and Green line are linked that the HSE or whoever runs methadone clinics, place the only south Dublin methadone clinic at the end of the Green line so that all the free travelling scum from the Red line get to experience the Green line 0
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I'm not at risk of being stabbed with a needle by a rogue banker, so, no, I don't think I'm going to keep my wits about me on the red line when someone in a suit gets on.
The red line is symptomatic of the rest of the country. Lots of laws, no enforcement, endless numbers of "disadvantaged" who are allowed make the lives of those of us paying for their "entitlements" that bit more miserable.
I can't wait until the lines are joined and we find junkies waking up in South Dublin. Some judges might not be so lenient when they're the ones traveling alongside them.
The Red Line goes through the Southside too?
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Foxhound38 wrote: »I'm surprised at the amount of posts here that verge on the "oh but they're downtrodden and ignored by society so we can't tell them to stop acting like cnuts ont he luas or anywhere else" attitude. Fcuk that - ordinary decent people from all areas, origins and walks of life should be able to take public transport without getting intimidated, attacked or robbed by criminal or anti-social elements. They should have the right to bring their kids on such transport without having them exposed to junkies shooting up in front of them at 2 O'Clock in the Afternoon in the middle of our Nation's Capital.
Hear Hear sez I.
To hear the Red Line's quite obvious issues brushed off with platitudes about "Disadvantaged Areas" makes me cringe.
I'm living in Tallaght for 28 years,and at no point would I ever have seen ANY part of it as "Disadvantaged".
What I have always seen,and continue to see,is significant numbers of criminally inclined anti-social elements who manage to insert themselves into the community and start a process of decay from the inside out.
These people brook no interference and will use whatever means necessary to establish and maintain their dominance in their area.
Tallaght is not unique in this,nor is LUAS Red Line,take a Green Line spin out via Ballyogan and environs to sample the evolutionary process,which most likely will equalize once BXD makes it across to :eek: BROOMBRIDGE !!! :eek:
The issue is not the district,or any individual's hang-up over Psycho's,Junkies,Beggars,Bankers,Skangers,Gyppos or whatever,instead it is the sheer lunacy of allowing a Billion € modern PUBLIC Transport system to have it's parameters set by aggressive Anti-Socials to the detriment of everybody else.
The Red Line Extension is a case in point,where it is all too apparent that passenger loadings particularly Off-Peak are worryingly low,with much of this down to the tolerance of the system being effectively hi-jacked and used for free amusement and other business.
There's a reason why the Park & Ride sites are largely unused,and it's not all down to recession and lack of funds.
Dublin Bus,had,historically,a large frequent and well patronized bunch of services both into and within Tallaght,with the service we now provide being a pale shadow of those....Ordinary folk finally had enough of the oppressive and often violent carry-on which eventually led to them deserting the service which led to that pale shadow we now have.
Public Transport needs to be SEEN to be safe,SEEN to be Reliable and Affordable if it's to prosper and expand,but all too often what is SEEN on Red Line flies totally counter to that,and is resulting in the paying-customers making alternative arrangements.
THAT is a defeat for those of us who want it to be otherwise
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
Charles Mackay (1812-1889)
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I don't envy you buddy.
Not exactly foxrock all the same! As I said, I have no bias towards the green line, what I want to see is standards improving on the red line so it's somewhat usable by ordinary, decent people without being subjected to scenes of overt and widespread intimidation, drug-taking/dealing, urination, fighting and other criminal or anti-social behaviours for their trouble.AlekSmart wrote:Hear Hear sez I.
To hear the Red Line's quite obvious issues brushed off with platitudes about "Disadvantaged Areas" makes me cringe.
I'm living in Tallaght for 28 years,and at no point would I ever have seen ANY part of it as "Disadvantaged".
What I have always seen,and continue to see,is significant numbers of criminally inclined anti-social elements who manage to insert themselves into the community and start a process of decay from the inside out.
These people brook no interference and will use whatever means necessary to establish and maintain their dominance in their area.
Tallaght is not unique in this,nor is LUAS Red Line,take a Green Line spin out via Ballyogan and environs to sample the evolutionary process,which most likely will equalize once BXD makes it across to
BROOMBRIDGE !!!
The issue is not the district,or any individual's hang-up over Psycho's,Junkies,Beggars,Bankers,Skangers,Gyppos or whatever,instead it is the sheer lunacy of allowing a Billion € modern PUBLIC Transport system to have it's parameters set by aggressive Anti-Socials to the detriment of everybody else.
The Red Line Extension is a case in point,where it is all too apparent that passenger loadings particularly Off-Peak are worryingly low,with much of this down to the tolerance of the system being effectively hi-jacked and used for free amusement and other business.
There's a reason why the Park & Ride sites are largely unused,and it's not all down to recession and lack of funds.
Dublin Bus,had,historically,a large frequent and well patronized bunch of services both into and within Tallaght,with the service we now provide being a pale shadow of those....Ordinary folk finally had enough of the oppressive and often violent carry-on which eventually led to them deserting the service which led to that pale shadow we now have.
Public Transport needs to be SEEN to be safe,SEEN to be Reliable and Affordable if it's to prosper and expand,but all too often what is SEEN on Red Line flies totally counter to that,and is resulting in the paying-customers making alternative arrangements.
THAT is a defeat for those of us who want it to be otherwise
Excellent post!0
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