Most religion is faith-based, rather than logic-based.

[MineralMan]

113. Thanks for that information about the Collins Dictionary.

It reminds me of a story from my time at an total immersion Russian language school. Fairly early in the courses, we were asked to write an essay in Russian, explaining what our life goals were. My essay was about my hope of becoming a hobo. I thought a little humor was in order.

Since it was early days in learning Russian, I had to resort to an English/Russian dictionary. The word "hobo" was not in that dictionary, so I looked up "bum," which was. So, I began my essay with a sentence that said: "I want to be a bum (zadnitsa). The rest of the essay was about the benefits of being a zadnitsa. I thought it was very clever.

Not so fast, though. The instructor who assigned the essay, which we had to read aloud in class, broke into peals of laughter when I read the first sentence. "Not Nice, Airman!" she said. "Not Nice!" She moved on to the next student's essay.

After class, I consulted a Russian/English dictionary to see what the problem was. I should have done that earlier. It turned out that the word, "zadnitsa" means "buttocks" in English. The problem was that my English/Russian dictionary was a British edition. It was a valuable lesson about dictionaries and translations. I really didn't mean to write" "I wan't to be an ass." But, the fault was mine. I should have remembered the British meaning of "bum."

I rewrote the essay, which got an "A" grade, but the teacher was still amused.