one of the biggest pains in the ass during the school year is teaching the kids the difference between lies, oxymora, ironic statements, and paradoxes.
here's what i generally define each one as:
lie: a statement that is incorrect with the intent of misleading to believe that the lie is truth; being wrong is not a lie, it is a mistake
oxymoron: a statement that essentially has two things being used as one subject despite being opposites
irony: a statement that can be incorrect or inaccurate but with the intention of humor or insult, similar to sarcasm but not quite
paradox: a statement that loops with impossibilities (the do-until loop of language, as i like to say) by contradicting itself
hei guize eyem' an english teecher!
So they dont know the difference between irony and a lie? the forget?
You work at a mental hospital?
Heres another paradox since im bored-
In the future you discover a time machine, you go back in time to when you were younger and teach yourself to invent something that turned out to be massive (tv, phone whatever the forget) so that you would be famous and rich, but then, since you were already famous and rich you would never have traveled back in time to teach yourself to incent it, thus it never happened.
Paradox.
And just one more :3-
You go back in time and kill your grandmother, do you die? No, if you were never born then you couldnt have gone back in time and killed her, therefor she is still alive and you never went back in time atall.
Paramaradox.