I made a mistake. I made a faux pas. A howler in fact. I wrote about casting off the ‘yolk’ of Rome instead of the yoke of Rome. (Not wishing to rub it in, but….. DA https://is-a-cunt.com/2021/04/sola-scriptura/)
I’m sorry. I prostrate myself before you cunters begging forgiveness.
I was corrected by a fellow cunter. It was a hard pill to swallow but I had to it because it was so blatantly obvious.
‘humility is truth’ wrote Saint Theresa of Avila. I certainly have learned about humility in this ‘yolk’ of Rome episode. I got egg on my face.
But you know I believe it has been good for my formation. I embrace my mistake now.
In fact I will add to it. Or own up to other tremendous errors I’ve made. One was, much to Mrs Plastic’s amusement and astonishment, at family gathering I announced ‘not many people know the Nile river is in Africa’. The not unexpected response was ‘er well the Nile river IS in Africa’.
That was one. Another verbal faux pas I made for a long time was the pronunciation of the word ‘sedentary’. I got it from ‘this sedentary trade’ from a Yeats poem-a poem about being a poet. Anyway I pronounced it seDENTary. The stress on the second syllable instead of the first SEDentary. It was fellow student that took me aside to break the news to me.
What else comes to mind? Oh yes. Now this is the heart of the Nom. I hope I have established that I can admit when I am wrong. Albeit very very reluctantly. But in the end if I am wrong I do admit it. A friend comes to mind. But the anecdote doesn’t. It was some television programme or advert. And the argument between us was were the people on the telly acting or were they just regular people. I wish I could remember what it was. But it was a long time ago.
Anyway the argument went on all evening. It got to the point where we rung up the BBC I think it was. Did we ever find out 100%? No. But there wasn’t just me there. And all the rest if us agreed they weren’t actors. But he wouldn’t have it, he wouldn’t have it.
He was one for correcting you. Oh, that was a wonderfully ecstatic moment when he got the author and the title of the book mixed up. In front if everyone ‘Jane Eyre is the title of the book you daft fuck not the author. For fucks sake’. Very satisfying moment. I got my own back.
Anyway, I’ve been honest with you cunters now you’ve got to be honest with me. In the spirit of humility I talked of earlier can any of you own up to getting a pronunciation, a spelling, a grammar point, something embarrassing, I don’t know maybe a book title maybe a song lyric just getting something embarrassingly catastrophically wrong.
It take a real cunter to own up that they can make mistakes.
I am particularly looking forward to the cunter that corrected me contributing. I cannot name him because it might’ve against the rules. All I will say is that his username is specific model of lawnmower.(Regrettably – or not – he has cut his final IsaC lawn – DA)
Nominated by: Miles Plastic
