SEMANTICS, MORONS AND OXYMORA
Few days ago I was approached by a young man, who I believe, was taking a survey. He asked me a question: “Do you support gay marriage?”
I told him: “Before I answer your question, I want to deal with the semantics of your sentence.” Then I proceed to tell him that the word “gay” has the following meanings:
- Excited and merry.
- Bright and lively in appearance
- Fine, excellent
- A toy or ornament especially for a child
- An illustration in a book or paper
Only recently the word gay has been used extensively as synonym of homosexual; therefore what you are asking me, I told him, is if I support homosexual marriage.
Let’s deal now with the word “marriage”.
- The state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife
- Wedlock.
- The institution whereby men and women are joined in a special kind of social and legal dependence for the purpose of founding and maintaining a family.
Marriage has been around for many millennia, and one of the most important purposes of marriage has been to preserve the human race in a family, consisting of a father a mother and the children.
“Now that we understand each other”, I continued, “I can tell you that ‘homosexual marriage’ is an oxymoron, and I do not like these kind of language. Neither I like morons, who are those people who constantly are using oxymora, not knowing what they are doing.”
After this, he left and thanked me for my answer. I suspected that he did not understand the meaning of several words I used:
Semantics
Millennia
Oxymoron
Oxymora
And I felt that he did not know that he was a moron either. 
Little did he know what he was in for when he asked you!
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