[Magdalen] Mangled Psalmody

[Roy Murphy]

My family has been using the Mission St. Claire android app to say evening
prayer together for about 2 years now. Just this week we noticed the psalms
had been crudely mangled in a very peculiar way.

At first I noticed that thee and thy had been inserted -- the psalms has
always been BCP psalms wit modern language - but the verbs had not been
reconjugated to match the pronouns. I was greatly offended at this
nonsensical approach. Tonight we noticed "theeng" and "thys".

After a moment of puzzlement, we realized that someone had done a simple
search and replace. Change "your" to "thy", so "yours" got changed to
"thys". Change "you" to "thee" so that "young" got changed to "theeng".

Last night I rebelled and refused to say the mangled psalm. Tonight, when
we realized the crude changes that had been made, I mentally changed each
one back before saying it out loud.*

I'm not going to put up with this nonsense much longer. I'm switching to
the CofE Daily Prayer app the MStC doesn't stop the nonsense.

Off to find an email address for them to complain to.

*Actually, evening prayer showed a blank page for tonight, so we said
morning prayer but the psalm was similarly mangled.