Logomachy

This is precisely the kind of education I would have envisaged for ourselves. That communication steers clear of illogic and bad diction as far as possible but we are all forgiven for mistakes we make from time to time. If not, we perpetuate myths, factoids, half truths and warped thinking.

My advocacy for a "practical" oriented approach to education has borne fruit in my illustration of the mathematical exercise at a junk-food joint. This is but one instance. As I have said all along, it takes experience to jolt one to practicalities or impracticalities, things we have learned in academe.

Here are more examples which I have painstakingly taxonomised them where applicable:

Political

A fascism is a philosphy or system of government that exercises dictatorship typically merging state and business leadership, together with a belligerent nationalistic ideology.

Governments do run on a system of the judiciary, legislature (or legislative assembly) and executive. Of course there are exceptions. I am not sure however if the exception is the rule or the reversionary is true. And if the exception is the rule, then the rule is an exception. Right?

The legislature is called by many names in different countries. It can be unicameral or bicameral.

In Germany, it is the Bundesrat (Ha! Rats) and the Bundestag. In Sweden it is the Riksdag. No, no, Japan's Diet doesn't mean a nationally prescribed menu for its citizens and see how punctuation is important here and the Congress in the United States of America and the Philippines is bicameral, the House of Representatives (lower) and Senate (upper).

Bicameral means two chambers , with the readings of bills (usually with amendments) before legislation, passing through both as a sort of check and balance and possibly even overule.

Britain's is the Westminster Parliament, as are most Commonwealth countries, bicameral with its House of Lords and House of Commons (Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha in the case of India). Each country would have its own vernacular translation.

China has its unicameral National People's Congress.

Sex

Well, hang me and slice my balls if the next entry immediately after politics happens to be sex. If I am in a congress with Danny, it may not be what you think it is.

Hmmmm. Come to think of it, all the congresses in politics certainly add up, don't they? Think world politicians on the international stage leaving office in a huff and puff because of the hush-hush they weren't able to hush up.

Misnomer

Catgut isn't surgical sutures made from the guts of cats but the dried intestines of other animals.

Biology

A fluke zoologically can be a type of worm or flatfish, vernacularly a happenstance or structurally the barbed triangular end of an implement like an arrow or harpoon.

A foreign person would, on our indigenous terms, be a non-Singapore citizen. That puts long term residents right along with our short-term working residents.

Humanities

Somehow most people associate philosophy with the system of values we live life by. Fortunately it also means critique and analysis of fundamental beliefs (which Socrates himself has dissertated) as they come to be conceptualised and formulated. It is also natural philosophy which investigated natural phenomena and its systemisation in theory and experiment. Yes, it concerns logos, pathos and ethos.

Astronomy is natural philosophy. And superpowers who are able to launch satellites and embark on stellar travel usually have astronomy and cosmology as subjects of study in their institutions of higher learning.

Mathematics

Permutation will be an ordered arrangement while combination isn't

So in my previous post, this corrigenda follows:

Permutation1: $W (A) = $X (B) + $Y (C) + $Z (D)
Permuation 2: $W (A) = $Y (C) + $Z (D) + $X (B)

Combination: $W(A) <= $Y (C) + $Z (D) + $X (B)

Mythology

The Gordian knot has it that King Gordius of Phrygia tied an intricate knot until Alexander the Great came along and cut it with a sword when he heard an oracle promising the winner the prize of ruling Asia.

The word "nemesis" has its origin in Greek mythology too. As do a host of other words.

I have only this last thing to say: LONG LIVE THE KING! QUEEN! EMPEROR! EMPRESS! PRESIDENT! CHANCELLOR! PRIME MINISTER! PREMIER! Whatever.