Rants of Inconsistency

There are just too much of them.

English. Hopefully self-explanatory. Who on earth made irregular verbs and overloaded the words “get”, “set”, “make”, “put”, and several others to the ridiculous point of 50 meanings. On a tangential note, who made the lack of singular unknown-gender pronoun. (Or is it “it” for humans of unknown gender?) Oh wait, there’s also this stupid genders of words. As in “player” is usually female (I think; if false, just change accordingly), so if you call “That player is so smart that [pronoun] won ten times in a row”, you’re supposed to use “she”.

Time. Also hopefully self-explanatory. 365 days aren’t supposed to be divided to 12 months, and leap seconds and 29 February shouldn’t exist at all. If I’m used to it, I might say that today is 2014-269. (Year 2014 day 269; remember that I remove leap days so this is 488 days after 26 May. If I do my computations correctly.) Also, to a lesser extent, the number of hours in a day and the number of minutes in an hour should be equal, so that computing times is as easy as handling a large base for your numbers.

I may edit this later. Meanwhile, I need to have some decent sleep soon for a test for a scholarship tomorrow in Jakarta, and I should get up at 2. In the morning. Derp.

On another very unrelated note, no one has found the sunken treasure yet. Added a hint.

Syllogism

A syllogism is a kind of logical argument in which one conclusion is inferred from two or more premises of a specific form. — Wikipedia

According to Wikipedia (and propositional calculus), all the following are invalid inferences.

All humans are mammals.
No cats are humans.
Hence, no cats are mammals.
(AEE-1)

Some humans are not male.
All fathers of humans are humans.
Hence, all fathers of humans are not male.
(OAE-1)

No humans are reptiles.
No cats are humans.
Hence, all cats are reptiles.
(OOA-1)

A few other resources agree with this.

However, introducing my Indonesian teacher. He believes that all of the above three syllogisms are valid (but wrong), while propositional calculus states that the above three are invalid.

Also, here’s another:
All Indonesians are humans.
All humans are mammals.
Hence, some mammals are Indonesians, given that the set of Indonesians is not empty.
(AAI-4)

Propositional calculus agrees that it’s valid, but my teacher basically rejects everything not in Format 1 (major MP, minor SM, conclusion SP).

I never know that the concept of syllogism is heavily different between Indonesian and math. English and math both agree on the given concept of syllogism as in Wikipedia, right? I’m pretty sure all other languages do the same (at least Greek does). Why Indonesian has an insane syllogism rules is beyond my comprehension. Or maybe not Indonesian, but this Indonesian teacher; after all, all Indonesian sources I’ve read also state the same thing, only my teacher differs.

Sooner or later I might as well ditch Indonesian language. Seriously. Either it’s illogical or my teacher is illogical.