Translating the national anthem?  What do you think..?
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Correcto, mi hermano,hermana, i have my girlfriend from Dominican, and it would be crazy to translate that hymn into dutch. A hymn has to be in the original language.
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The third verse of the US National Anthem:\n\n"And where is that band who so vauntingly swore \nThat the havoc of war and the battle's confusion \nA home and a country should leave us no more? \nTheir blood has wiped out their foul footsteps' pollution. \nNo refuge could save the hireling and slave \nFrom the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave: \nAnd the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave \nO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave."
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Our national anthem should be sung it the way it was meant to be sung, in the language it was meant to be sung.  If they want to sing an anthem in Spanish then they need to return to their own country and sing THAT national anthem.
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"These immigrants are fighting to embrace this nation."\n\nThat is funny.  Of course, how did I miss it.  Waving a foreign flag, speaking a foreign language, demanding free services, bastardizing the National Anthem.  Sound like their trying to embrace this nation - in a war!\n\nI believe that this is going to backfire on them.  In California we need to stop electing these people who hate living in this country.  That's the only reason I can explain why they would boycott it.
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Hells no, kid!!! It is the American National Anthem, the native tongue in the United states is English. Only the National anthem for Spanish speaking nations should be sung in spanish. Should the Canadian National anthem be sung in German?........No again.
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Literal translation is NO MORE...NO MORE.  But in this context the better translation would be\nEnough!  Stop it!
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:))\nit's really "untranslatable" (if there's such a word) !!
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It's interesting, as a poem I would have stopped at struggle to change as a song its fine to continue, Some grammatical and punctuation errors, I would accept it as a work in progress. :-) good luck and keep writing
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Rockinjellyfish:\n\n"Pour le service en anglais choisissez le numéro un maintenant."\n\nFor service in English choose the number and wait a moment.\n\nEduarodi:\n\nDude you need a chill pill. I mean seriously. Who do you think you are? You don't even live here so you need to just shut up and crawl into your little whole in Argentina. \n\nMy friends father is from Argentina by the way and he hates it that people like you complain. He told Ary and me that. He's an executive in a business that builds builiding. In other words he's and architect. So don't give me that bullsh*t. :)\n\nIt is not fair for us Americans to have to bend over backwards just to help the non-English speaking people. Sorry! Don't think so. This is the United States of America. We speak English only. If you don't like it, go elsewhere. \n\nI would not expect for the people in Mexico to have to learn English just for me. I would take the time and effort to learn the language. Others should be just as courteous if not more. We are letting them live here. We could easily deport all of them back to where they came from. \n\nI the walking into a store or calling someplace and it saying, "For English press one. Para español permanece en la línea." Or something like that. I think that that is wrong. If they are going to live here then they need to learn the language. I don't feel sorry for them and I think you need to get over it.
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The Star-Spangled Banner\n\n\nIf there is anything taken more seriously than the US flag, it's possibly the national anthem. The Star-Spangled Banner accompanies just about every major American function, and at major sporting events a significant honour is bestowed on those asked to sing what is probably the best known national anthem in the world.\n\nBut, listen to the words and it tells of a moment in US history when the war with the British was being fought and of one man's relief in seeing the US flag still flying after a vicious bombardment.\n\nBefore the Battle\nThe War of 1812 had been a particularly nasty conflict with the British. They had burned down the Capitol and White House in Washington, and were set on taking the port of Baltimore, which was protected in part by Fort McHenry. After an initial land attack had been thwarted, 16 ships of the British fleet positioned themselves for a massive attack on the fort.\n\nBefore the fleet came within canon range, two Americans, Colonel John Skinner and a lawyer and part-time poet by the name of Francis Scott Key, had gone out to one of the British ships. They had come to negotiate the release of Dr William Beanes, a friend of Key who had been seized following the attack on Washington. The British agreed, but all three had learned too much about the forthcoming attack and were detained by the British on board the frigate Surprise until it was over.\n\nThe Defense of Fort McHenry\nThe attack started on September 12th, 1814, and continued for the next two days. Skinner, Beane and Key watched much of the bombardment from the deck and, through the nights of the 12th and 13th they caught glimpses of the star-shaped fort with its huge flag - 42ft long, with 8 red stripes, 7 white stripes and 15 white stars, it had been specially commissioned to be big enough that the British could not possibly fail to see it from a distance.\n\nIn the dark of the night of the 13th, the shelling suddenly stopped - through the darkness they couldn't tell whether the British forces had been defeated, or the fort had fallen.\n\nAs the sun began to rise, Key peered through the lifting darkness anxious to see if the flag they had seen the night before was still flying. And so it was that he scribbled on the back of an envelope the first lines of a poem he called Defense of Fort M'Henry:\n\nO, say can you see, by the dawn's early light,\nWhat so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming\nAs the mist started to clear he was aware that there was a flag flying - but was it the British flag? It was difficult to tell:\n\nWhat is that which the breeze o'er the towering steep,\nAs it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?\nBut finally the sun rose, and with intense relief and pride he saw that the fort had withstood the onslaught ...\n\n'Tis the star-spangled banner - O long may it wave\nO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.\n\n\nThe poem becomes a hymn and anthem\nOn the way back to shore, and later in his hotel room, he completed all four verses of the poem, and the following morning he took it to his brother-in-law, a local judge, who thought it so good that he arranged to have it printed as a handbill.\n\nIt is very likely that Key only ever intended this as a poem. However, there was a very popular tune of the time which had the same form and metre, and there can be no doubt that Key was heavily influenced by it - ironically, this was the tune of a British drinking song!\n\nWhen the handbills were printed, they bore the name of this tune to which the poem should be sung - Anacreon in Heaven. Nobody is sure whether this was Key's idea, or whether his brother-in-law had made the connection, but to this day the American National Anthem is sung to the tune of a British drinking song.\n\nAt one time, the English composer Dr Thomas Arnold was thought to be its composer - it was used as the constitutional song of the Anacreonic Society, a
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Into what language do you want it translated?
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A Spanish rendition of the national anthem does not "incurage" (by the way, isn't it a bit humbling that you don't know how to write in your own language, and are being scorned for it by people whose first language isn't even English?) illegal immigration.  It encourages provincial, monolingual, illiterate simpletons to learn at least one more language.  Heh.
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Wow, I play that song so much, and I have never sat down to try and make sense of the lyrics. Being an American, I probably wouldn't be much help to analyze it, but letting you know there are Americans who do like the song.
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That is very interesting.\nHere in Canada  we have two official languages, and the anthem is sung in both languages, English and French.\nBut unless Spanish has been made an official language in the US, it is not right that this be sung in Spanish.\nMy opinion.
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There Is A HUGE Difference Between\nWaving / Displaying A (Foreign) Flag In Celebration And Pride\n( ie : Cinco De Mayo, St. Pat's Day)\nAnd Brandishing / Marching Under A Foreign Flag \nIn Protest And An Attempt To Intimidate\n\nMay 1st - You All Shot Yourselves In The Foot\n\nFolks .. \nYou WANT To Be Treated Like AMERICANS \nYet You Will Protest Under A FOREIGN FLAG ... \nAnd You Expect ME To RALLY With You??? \nAnd SUPPORT Your Cause??? \n\nI Think NOT.. \nPerhaps You Should Realize \nExactly What It Is That You Are Trying To Accomplish... \nBecause To ME \nIt Looks Like An INVASION From A Foreign Army .. \n\nAnd I'm Prepared To Defend\n\n\n\nYou Wish To Become AMERICANS \nWith The RIGHTS Of AMERICANS .. \nYet Many Of You REFUSE To SPEAK My/Our LANGUAGE \nAnd REFUSE To Honor My/Our Flag\n \nWell I REFUSE To Let YOU Continue To Burden My Pocket \nAnd The Pockets Of My BROTHERS Of ANY DESCENT\nWho Are "PROUD TO BE AMERICANS" \n\n\nYou Call It INTOLERANCE???\nCall It What YOU Wanna Call It-\nIf It Makes YOU Feel Better-\nCall It RACISM,\nIf It Makes YOU Feel Better\nCall Me A NAZI\nIf It Makes YOU Feel Better\nCall It WHATHEF**KEVERYOU Wanna Call It-\nAs Long As It Makes YOU Feel Better\n\nWhats Gonna Make ME Feel Better???\n\nI Pledge ALLEGIENCE To The FLAG\nOf The UNITED STATES Of AMERICA\n\nI KNOW Im Not A Racist\nI KNOW Im Not A Nazi\nI KNOW Im A PROUD AMERICAN CITIZEN \nAnd A HARDWORKING TAXPAYER\nAnd A MILITARY VETERAN\nAnd NOTHING YOU Call ME Is Gonna Change That\n\nYou DISGRACE My NATION???-\nYou DISGRACE My FLAG???-\nNO SOUP FOR YOU!!!\n\nThe LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY \nBrought This Upon Themselves\n\nThey Created A Racial Divide Within The US\nWE THE PEOPLE Will Close The Gap\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe cannot allow illegals to remain in this country \nbecause it sends the very clear message \nto anyone from any country : \nGo ahead and enter the U.S. illegally. \nNothing will be done to you. \nThe stupid Americans will pay \nto feed you, clothe you, educate your kids \nand pay for your medical care \nwhile they themselves are forced to go without \nbecause they can't afford health insurance \nbecause their tax dollars are paying for you! \n\nHa, Ha! \n\nGo ahead and enter the U.S. illegally \nif you're a terrorist, \nno problem, \ngo ahead and build your cells, \nblow up buildings and schools. \nNothing will happen \nbecause American politicians \nare too cowardly to repel this invasion \nand deport the millions of illegals aready here \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDEPORT ALL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS UPON DISCOVERY\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTheodore Roosevelt on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN\n\n"In the first place we should insist \nthat if the immigrant who comes here in good faith \nbecomes an American and assimilates himself to us, \nhe shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, \nfor it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man\nbecause of creed, or birthplace, or origin. \n\nBut this is predicated \nupon the man's becoming in very fact an American, \nand nothing but an American...\nThere can be no divided allegiance here. \n\nAny man who says he is an American, \nbut something else also, isn't an American at all.\n \nWe have room for but one flag, \nthe American flag, \nand this excludes the red flag, \nwhich symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, \njust as much as it excludes any foreign flag \n\nWe have room for but one language here, \nand that is the English language...\nand we have room for but one sole loyalty \nand that is a loyalty to the American people."\n--Theodore Roosevelt 1907\n\nThere is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. \nThe one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, \nof preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all,\nwould be to permit it to become \na tangle of squabbling nationalities. \n— Theodore Roosevelt, \nspeech before the Knights of Columbus, 1915, New York\n\nTo announce that there must
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Just got this yesterday..amazing...\nFi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. Cna yuo raed tihs? \nfi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too \nCna yuo raed tihs? \n\ni cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!\ncool aint it?