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2006-04-28 Home Front: Politix

President Says National Anthem Should Be Sung in English

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Posted by Desert Blondie 2006-04-28 14:50|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The day idiots will fly this guy is going to be the first man to leave the galaxy.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-04-28 16:15|| 2006-04-28 16:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Where's the part that says,

Then conquer we must
when our cause it is just
and this be our motto
In God is Our Trust.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-04-28 16:19|| 2006-04-28 16:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Also, the Spanish text is atrocious and stupid. Many words in the proposed text simply dont exist and are deformations of existing words (libertada instead of libertad), ptiful tricks in order to shoehorn the text into the music. Because quite siimply Spanish has a different rythmic than English so finding words who keeep the meaning than the original version AND go with the music AND rhyme is enormously difficult. It ios like translating a poem (very, very, very hard) except with the added complication of having to stick to the music. Not something who can be done by a two bit loser like this guy.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-04-28 16:25|| 2006-04-28 16:25|| Front Page Top

#4 For those who dodn't understand Spanish here is my translation (I am a native Spanish speaker, Spanish fgrom Spain not from South America BTW)

It dawns do you see it, at the light of the aurora
what we so much hailed at the sunset (1)
Its stars, its spans,
flated yesterday in the fierce fight
in sign of victory
Blare of fight, at the step of the freedom (2)
By the night they were saying: It is defending itself"

Chorus
Oh, say, does it still deploys (3)
Voice (4) over its starred beauty
Over land of free (5),
the sacred banner (6)

Its stars, its spans, THE (7) freedom, we are equal
We are brothers in our hymn,
In the fierce fight, in sign of vicory
Blare of fight, at the step of the freedom
My people continue fighting,
It is time to break the chains
During the night they were saying: It si defending itself"

Chorus
Oh, say, does it still deploys

(1) Here the original text has incorrect Spanish grammar

(2) Word who doesn't exists in Spanish

(3) The original Spanish word means deploy, unfold not display

(4) Voice or scream

(5) free without telling more (eg free men) is quite atrocious in Spanish or French

(6) And sacred has a strong religuous meaning in Spanish, specally when you tell bandera sagrada like in the song instead of sagrada bandera (unlike normal spanish practice sagrada is usually placed before the name

(7) Freedom would sound better in English but in the Spanish it says LA libertad not libertad

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-04-28 17:02|| 2006-04-28 17:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Let's get Ricky Martin to write the lyrics. Something with a catchy beat, like "La Vida Migra"

Posted by ed 2006-04-28 17:06|| 2006-04-28 17:06|| Front Page Top

#6 I notice the title reads "Our Anthem", not the "American Anthem". And with the manipulation of lyrics - not just a bad translation - I'd say trademark infringement at the least!

Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-04-28 18:15|| 2006-04-28 18:15|| Front Page Top

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