What Is an Oxymoron?
8. Original Copy
The word “copy” does not really need explaining in depth, it simply means something that has been copied from something else. This, in turn, means that the “something else” must have existed before the copy was made. “Original copy,” however, means the first of its kind, which makes the term oxymoronic.
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It could be argued that “copy” in this sense would mean copy as in written sales copy, which would make sense. It is not often the term is used in that context, however, causing that argument to fail. For example, an original copy will often refer to an original DVD of a movie.
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