A young monk arrives at a monastery. He is assigned to helping the other monks copy the old laws of the church by hand. He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript.
So the new monk goes to the head monk to ask why, signalling that if someone made even a small error in the first copy, nobody would realise it. In fact, that error would be continued in all of the subsequent copies.
The head monk, says, "You make a good point, my son." He goes down into the dark caves beneath the monastery where the original manuscripts are kept. Hours go by and nobody sees the head monk.
The young monk is worried, and goes down to look for him. He finds him banging his head against the wall and wailing: "We missed the R! Oh God! We missed the R! We missed the R!"
"Father!" says the young monk, "I don't understand!"
The head monk, with tears in his eyes, says, "We missed an R! The word is celebrate!"
When you wail, you shout or cry with a long, high sound because you are in pain, or are very sad. We find the same word in "the wailing wall" and in "Bob Marley and the Wailers".
So the new monk goes to the head monk to ask why, signalling that if someone made even a small error in the first copy, nobody would realise it. In fact, that error would be continued in all of the subsequent copies.
The head monk, says, "You make a good point, my son." He goes down into the dark caves beneath the monastery where the original manuscripts are kept. Hours go by and nobody sees the head monk.
The young monk is worried, and goes down to look for him. He finds him banging his head against the wall and wailing: "We missed the R! Oh God! We missed the R! We missed the R!"
"Father!" says the young monk, "I don't understand!"
The head monk, with tears in his eyes, says, "We missed an R! The word is celebrate!"
When you wail, you shout or cry with a long, high sound because you are in pain, or are very sad. We find the same word in "the wailing wall" and in "Bob Marley and the Wailers".
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