[Magdalen] Mangled Psalmody

[Roy Murphy]

Whatever was done by whomever, it was done very recently. I believe the app
is just a browser that pulls in a page off the missionstclaire.org site.

I've had no problem with the psalms until this week.

I can't tell you how offended I am by this. I'm beside myself. I found a
facebook group and left a comment there in addition to writing to a contact
email.


On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 10:40 PM, Charles Wohlers <
charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:

> 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.
>