[Magdalen] Mangled Psalmody

[Charles Wohlers]

Not "them" but she - Shay Barsabe runs the site. I suspect someone did the 
Android app for her - don't think she'd do something quite that dumb. If one 
wanted traditional language Psalms, you go to the 1928 BCP (for example) - 
they're all online. Doing what you report does not do the trick - even if 
you put a space after "you" and "your" so as to avoid the stupidity you've 
seen.

Chad Wohlers
East Bridgewater, MA USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: Roy Murphy
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2015 10:01 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: [Magdalen] Mangled Psalmody

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.