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Guten Morgen ist ein Oxymoron!

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Oxymoron is a funny word. Like a moron, but now improved with active oxygen for stronger cleaning!

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It is connected to both moron and oxygen. The Greek word moros means stupid, so a moron is someone or something stupid, and oxys means something like sharp or pointed. An oxymoron is thus a “pointed stupidity”.

The word oxygen derives from the old, now falsified belief that it is the key element to create an acid. genes means creation and it was named because of that thought that it creates sharp (acidic) stuff.

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Thank you very much!

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