[Magdalen] Mangled Psalmody

[Roy Murphy]

It looks like they fixed the psalms tonight.

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Roy Murphy <roy.murphy at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
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