I'm wrong. You ever said that? I did. Then, wonder of wonders, it turned out I was wrong. You ever been wrong about being wrong? Man, that's just wrong.
Wrong. Say it enough times, and it sounds WRONG. Is it even a word? Wrong? Say it out loud: "Wrong." Kind of sounds like the sound a spring wall-protector (the kind behind doors) makes when you flip it with your fingers, "Wuh-rongggggggg." That the word "wrong" actually sounds wrong . . . man, that's just wrong.
Sometimes, the beginning of wisdom, I mean the very first step in a journey of a thousand miles, is to admit, hey, you know, maybe I don't know. Right? Maybe I'm wrong. It's possible I could be wrong, but then again, I might be wrong about that.
If we have been taught to sing our ABCs as: "A - B - D - C - F - E - G..." it is going to sound very weird to us when
some fool has the audacity to sing in front of us: "ABCDEFG..." Maybe they even sing better than us, but to us, they are just flat out WRONG. They are not singing it RIGHT. Right? I mean correctly.
Plus, who is to say that ABCDEFG is the correct layout, the contiguous flow, I don't know, uh, other than SOCIETY (okay, consider "society," what about "i" before "e" except after "c," in that case, "society" is wrong, so why should I sing the ABCs their way, hmmmmm?) (then again, "i" before "e" except after "c" just ain't very sCIEntific, is it?).
It would be difficult to start singing the ABCs the correct way, wouldn't it? Especially considering that it was our beloved Mama that taught it to us in the ABDCF tradition. It makes it even more difficult that EVERYone is singing it ABDCF, even society, and we know better, cuz if done rightly, we'll be weird.
- Oz Moses
