Prime Minister Trudeau's malapropism

[Vlad Drkulec]

Someone should buy our prime minister a thesaurus. Entropy is not a good thing. "Diversity is leading to entropy."

[Kerry Liles]

Someone should buy our prime minister a thesaurus. Entropy is not a good thing. "Diversity is leading to entropy."

But, wait, didn't he explain everything at the Perimiter Institute? I mean, he gets quantum mechanics... lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZBLSjF56S8

[Ed Seedhouse]

Maybe you should look up the meaning of "malapropism" before you accuse others of it...

[Vlad Drkulec]

I am quite familiar with the meaning of malapropism. Perhaps before you accuse someone of not knowing the meaning of "malapropism" you should look up the meaning yourself. I am not sure what big word Trudeau was trying to use but it was an epic fail unless he has come over to the Maxime Bernier way of thinking which I don't believe he has.

mal·a·prop
ˈmaləˌpräp/
noun
noun: malapropism

1. the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with unintentionally amusing effect, as in, for example, “dance a flamingo ” (instead of flamenco ).

   synonyms:

   wrong word, solecism, misuse, misapplication, infelicity, Freudian slip, blunder; More

[Vlad Drkulec]

But, wait, didn't he explain everything at the Perimiter Institute? I mean, he gets quantum mechanics... lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZBLSjF56S8

I'm sure some people think he is a rocket scientist too.

[Wayne Komer]

Prime Minister Trudeau’s malapropism

September 10, 2018

I have always understood that a malapropism was the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one.

Did Trudeau just mistakenly use “entropy” or did he use it in place of a similar-sounding word?

I must be dense but I cannot think of what that similar-sounding word is. Can someone help me here?

[Sid Belzberg]

But, wait, didn't he explain everything at the Perimiter Institute? I mean, he gets quantum mechanics... lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZBLSjF56S8

So last week at Tech Crunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco i had an interesting discussion with the IBM Quantum computer researchers and discussed a very different model to how the thing works compared to Trudeau's standard and very much rehearsed explanation. Instead of a world where waves and particles have a dual attributes and Superposition describes a state as a merely a probability or a mathematical construct of the state of a particle recent experiments in the macro world have shown that a particle is a particle that is driven along by separate wave and can be predictably calculated.

In the Quantum computing world instead of Trudeau's convoluted explanation we could view a Quantum computer as a wheel of fortune that delivers random numbers at an incredible frequency. In fact it would be the speed of light (C) divided by the radius of an electron. (You heard it first! :-) That would probably be the maximum computational capacity of a single Quantum CPU.
Below is a picture I took at the conference of the Super cooling system IBM uses in it's Quantum computer that they had on exhibit.

[John Coleman]

Prime Minister Trudeau’s malapropism

September 10, 2018

I have always understood that a malapropism was the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one.

Did Trudeau just mistakenly use “entropy” or did he use it in place of a similar-sounding word?

I must be dense but I cannot think of what that similar-sounding word is. Can someone help me here?

I didn't hear the original speech, maybe JT meant "energy" or "enterprise". It could also be that he was just babbling.

[Ed Seedhouse]

I am quite familiar with the meaning of malapropism.

mal·a·prop
ˈmaləˌpräp/
noun
noun: malapropism[LIST=1][*]the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with unintentionally amusing effect, as in, for example, “dance a flamingo ” (instead of flamenco ).

Talk about your self contradicting post!
It's really hilarious that you quote the definition without understanding it but not, alas, surprising. And equally so that you assumed I did not look it up first.
You've obviously been worshiping at Drumpf's feet for too long.

I suppose it would be too much to expect you to clean up the crap HTML.

[Ed Seedhouse]

I'm sure some people think he is a rocket scientist too.

But nobody thinks that about you Vlad.

[Ed Seedhouse]

It could also be that he was just babbling.

That's the default option.

[Vlad Drkulec]

Definition of malapropism
1 : the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase; especially : the use of a word sounding somewhat like the one intended but ludicrously wrong in the context "Jesus healing those leopards" is an example of malapropism.
2 : malaprop
— malapropist play \-ˌprä-pist\ noun

Perhaps I should have used the Merriam-Webster definition which makes it clear that the use of the word malapropism applies to situations where there is an unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase. The existence of a word sounding somewhat like the one intended is a subset of all of the instances of malapropism and not a necessary precondition for all instances.

Of course the ones correcting me probably hold some much more ridiculous views than their mistaken belief that I might be wrong about this.

See their writings on socialism that works, global warming and other such mythical beasts and constructs.

[Ed Seedhouse]

Perhaps I should have used the Merriam-Webster definition which makes it clear that the use of the word malapropism applies to situations where there is an unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase.

I've heard of P-hacking but now Vlad has invented D-hacking. And of course the definition he found also applies to his post. Self refutation once again.

[Henri Hughes]

I've heard of P-hacking but now Vlad has invented D-hacking. And of course the definition he found also applies to his post. Self refutation once again.

I think he was simply correcting himself? I don't see the need for you to delve deeper into the judgements of what he was saying.

[Paul Bonham]

What did Martha Bernays wear to bed at night?

A Freudian slip.