What's the difference between Dejure and De Fracto?? What do they even mean?
Ooh, sorry, forgot to explain.
“De jure” and “de facto” are legal phrases that I love. I learned them in my APUSH class back in high school. “De jure” means “legally,” so, what happens according to the law. “De facto” is de jure’s opposite: it means “daily,” so, what happens in real life every day, regardless of what the law says.
A good example of the contrast is in the aftermath of Brown v. Board, where, de jure, segregation was gone, but de facto, a lot of segregation remained socially, even if illegally. Another example is that de jure, kids under 21 don’t drink, but de facto, of course we do.
Here I used “de jure” to mean what the official Columbia records say the class is supposed to be; a flavorless definition of the technicalities of the class. I used “de facto” to describe what ~actually~ happens in the class and my take on it. Sorry for the confusion!