From: utzoo!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!benson
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Sentential Auto-antonymy
Article-I.D.: dcdwest.173
Posted: Wed Feb 16 15:06:27 1983
Received: Mon Feb 21 19:40:14 1983


I just heard a strange sentence that I would place in the same
area as the oxymoron and the words that mean their antonym.

	"I wrote a paper and it was heavily plagarized"

This would be meaningful if

	1) he wrote the paper and people later plagarized it

or

	2) he wrote the paper by plagarizing others.

Now I don't want to start a barrage of similar sentences or,
worse yet catalog the list and summarize it for the net; this
is just another "gee whiz" for your enjoyment, if not your
edification.


Peter Benson
!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest