Could positive actions by Trump outweigh negatives

Yes, and they already have. Make Korea Great Again!

Trump is the breakfast blink to a client finger overload like a delicious estate of scientific curse words about cave heaps and super chest sounds. They've converted the baby into bath water and hasty bicycle snacks.

progaardvark wrote: Trump is the breakfast blink to a client finger overload like a delicious estate of scientific curse words about cave heaps and super chest sounds. They've converted the baby into bath water and hasty bicycle snacks.

Touche e Brute?

Maybe.....it would depend on the various actions.

Trump and positive actions - that's what those who speak Latin call a contradictio in adiecto

Tell that to his believers. They think he's got Lil' Kim hiding under the bed!

Edited by SteveG - May 02 2018 at 11:18

SteveG wrote: Tell that to his believers. They think he's got Lil' Kim hiding under the bed!

The only thing hiding under Trump's bed are the Russian prostitutes hiding there when Trump's wife occasionally shows up to tell him how disgusting he is.

Edited by Easy Money - May 02 2018 at 11:40

SteveG wrote: BaldJean wrote: Trump and positive actions - that's what those who speak Latin call a contradictio in adiecto Or what in English is known as an oxymoron.

no, it is not. you miss a big difference between an oxymoron (which actually is Greek meaning "sharp-blunt") and a contradicitio in adiecto. an oxymoron is a rhetorical device of combining two opposites and thereby creating a completely new meaning. examples are "bittersweet", "open secret", "love-hate" or "deafening silence".

these phrases, although being apparent contradictions, are nevertheless meaningful and generally understood. but "Trump and positive actions" does not fall into this category; it is merely a contradiction.

for more information see this article by a retired professor of English:

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-contradiction-in-terms-and-oxymoron

some people give "pretty ugly" as an example for an oxymoron. it is however not because the meaning of "pretty" in this example is not "pleasing to the eye" but "quite"



Edited by BaldJean - May 02 2018 at 12:52

SteveG wrote: Could any positive actions by Trump (such as disarming N. Korea) outweigh his negatives (such as race baiting?)

BaldJean wrote: SteveG wrote: BaldJean wrote: Trump and positive actions - that's what those who speak Latin call a contradictio in adiecto Or what in English is known as an oxymoron. no, it is not. you miss a big difference between an oxymoron (which actually is Greek meaning "sharp-blunt") and a contradicitio in adiecto. an oxymoron is a rhetorical device of combining two opposites and thereby creating a completely new meaning. examples are "bittersweet", "open secret", "love-hate" or "deafening silence". these phrases, although being apparent contradictions, are nevertheless meaningful and generally understood. but "Trump and positive actions" does not fall into this category; it is merely a contradiction. for more information see this article by a retired professor of English: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-contradiction-in-terms-and-oxymoron some people give "pretty ugly" as an example for an oxymoron. it is however not because the meaning of "pretty" in this example is not "pleasing to the eye" but "quite"

To quote Megadeth, "military intelligence. two words combined that don't make sense."