Sometimes, I just get really upset at people and their stupidity. The MC at the bathing suit beach revue in which my cousin participated seems to me to be a dumb person. However, the specific point that is on my mind tonight is when people add their own stuff to things that people write. It is one thing if one truly corrects grammar or an obvious misspelling or something of the sort. But changing the information or “correcting” it to something that is actually wrong are not okay for me.
In the revue, she said my cousin “is originally from San Antonio.” No, she isn’t. She moved there about a year ago. She was in Oklahoma for a few years before that. Galveston a few years before that. Houston before that. Austin before that. And the Beaumont area before that. That’s where she was born and grew up, you see, the Beaumont area. That is where she is originally from.
So, she wouldn’t have written in her own bio that she is originally from San Antonio. She might have said that she lives in San Antonio. Or even, perhaps, that she came from or is from San Antonio, because she just did and presently is from there. But there is no way she would have written that she is originally from San Antonio, because she just isn’t and has never desired to be so. So, that bothered me that the MC said that. It also made no sense saying “originally” for any of the ones she said, because she never said where they live now, the required contrast to mentioning a distinctly previous location. Aka she’s an idiot for having said that so many times about folks.
It reminds me of how someone ‘edited’ a submission I gave about my time in Japan to a digital magazine kind of thing. I checked my wording and grammar before sending it in, and I was intentional with everything I wrote. When it was published, several lines had been altered into horrid sentences that only halfway qualified as sentences, the grammar in them was so bad. I was horrified to have such dumb sh** associated with my name as something I had written. And as an English language specialist, nonetheless. The folks at the magazine had held the same position I had at some point, by the way, so they had been teaching English, too. Total idiots there. And such a shame to have such people teaching the language. Ugh.
Anyway… present frustrations that were on my mind especially strongly tonight.
God, make us well and keep us safe and together, please. Show us your will clearly. In your name, I pray. Amen.
Post-a-day 2025
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