"M.Butzin" <mfbutzin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "ray" <xxxrayted@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> In article <svf5g.211925$Oe2.64885@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> Tim Howard <tim.howard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> This is a serious and simple question: why is everyone so upset
>>> that a record company in UK has recorded a Spanish-language version
>>> of "The Star Spangled Banner"? I have read and heard calls for
>>> censor****p of the song and of anyplace who sells it etc. Even GW
>>> has weighed in saying people should sing the anthem in English.
>>>
>>> What do they think is going to be the result of such a recording?
>>> It certainly doesn't mean no one will still be signing it in English
>>> if they want. It doesn't mean Mexicans have "taken over" the USA.
>>> If hispanics want to sing the national anthem in Spanish why should
>>> anyone give a damn?
>>
>> For the simple fact it's just another baby step towards a
>> multilingual country propelled by the Mexicans. It started slow
>> years ago. First it was instructions on devices and products you
>> purchase from the store. Then it went to customer service with your
>> credit card or perhaps your cable company. It advanced from there to
>> your utility companies and even Government services. Now it's the
>> National Anthem.
>>
>> Besides the Mexicans, we have another movement of people from the
>> Middle East. But do you see them forcing Arabic down the throats of
>> the United States citizens? Of course not. They come here--learn
>> the language and participate in the American dream. THIS IS AMERICA
>> DAMN IT! Nobody in this country should have to be asked what
>> language they would like to communicate in. If you don't know (or
>> resist) the English language, go back to where you belong. This
>> country is for Americans and those who wish to become Americans, The
>> Asians didn't ask our country to adapt to their language, neither did
>> the Arabs and neither did the Europeans. Because if have to push one
>> more damn button on my telephone to indicate to the company I am
>> dealing with that I wish to speak English in my own country, I'm
>> going to break yet another telephone in my home. Kick all these
>> bastards out of our country.
>>
>> --
>> --Conservatives deal with facts, liberals deal with emotion--
>
> You go Ray! It not just that it was sung in Spanish, BUT that some of
> the words were changed and added some other words.
>
> If your a Brit it amounts to ****ing with the song God Save the
> Queen.....
>
> When in Rome do as the Romans do.... Learn the Language, learn the
> customs become a citizen, or go back home.
>
> I'm with you on this one Ray.......
Actually, the Brits have a lot of nerve mucking about with Mr. Key's poem
in the first place, considering the cir***stances under which it was
composed. Here, I'll re-post it. Don't stop at the first verse.
1. Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming!
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there:
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
2. On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now ****nes on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
3. And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
4. Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the Heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
-Francis Scott Key
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Chip
Oderint dum metuant
-Lucius Accius
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