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Date: August 13, 2017 08:51PM
Anon370855V Wrote:
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http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,2002290,2002> 431#msg-2002431
The term "oxymormon" may be new to this site, but it's been around for awhile. My niece's cousin used the alias "Olive Oxymormon" in 2007. Author Sarah Hepola either mis-transcribed or intentionally changed the moniker to "Olive Oxymoron" to make it a bit more Mormon-friendly when she posted interviews with southern Idaho teens Olive Oxymormon and her friend Lucy Latter-Day Sinner. Lucy's handle for the published interviews was changed to "Lucy Latter-Day Saint."
I believe the term had been used elsewhere on the Internet before my niece's cousin used it. I may have read it at the Salamander Society site, though I'm not certain. I don't think anyone necessarily copied anyone else. It was a term that was begging to be coined, and it emerged spontaneously in more than one place.