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Do you know your national anthem

Do you know your national anthem

  • Yes

    Votes: 14 100.0%

  • No

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    14
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Forgott to add the poll. Possible answers are "yes" or "no", of course​





Could you recognize the lyrics of your national anthem?
Could you sing it?
Do you think it is important to know it? Why?

I think that most people worldwide know their national anthem, particularly more patriotic countries like in the USA or in France.

However, this is not the case in my country.
I'm not a stupid dumbass (I think) and I do not even know the first verse. I know the music but not the lyrics.

Our prime minister, when asked to sing the Brabançonne (our anthem), confused it with the Marseillaise (French anthem).

YouTube - Yves Leterme
(first, he says the 21th July is the date of the declaration of independance while it is the arrival of our first king, and on 55' he sings the French anthem)

That's the same with our regional anthem (the "song of the Walloons")
YouTube - Le chant des wallons
That's in front of the walloon parliament. The journalist asks the members of the parliaments and the senators
"are you proud to be Walloon?"
"of course", "yes!"

Then, he says the first verse of the Walloon anthem ("Behold the triumph of her industry") as if it was a question
(answer of the ministers, who did not see that it was) "yeah I'm not sure it is true" "it was true in the past indeed" (they don't recognize it is the anthem)

"these sentences do not remember you anything"?
"no" "not at all" "no" "I don't see what you're talking about":rofl
 
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Sex Pistols for the British, Hendrix for the American and Rolf Harris for the Aussies. Other than that, I only know to leave the room when God Save The Queen is played. Republicanism demands it
 
Moderator's Warning:
Poll added.
 
Absolutely. I, actually, enjoy singing it when I drive. Yes, I'm weird like that.
 
In answer to your question, yes I know my national anthem, and it doesn't surprise me that someone can elect a leader that doesn't know their own anthem. I'm sure there are a lot of people in the US who don't know our own national anthem, or the pledge of allegiance, or even who their state representative is. Don't give the US too much credit as we have our own share of dumbasses right here at home. Try watching some of Jay Leno's "Jaywalking" segments from NBC's The Tonight Show and see what I mean. The US is chalked full of morons:

YouTube - Raphi clownin' on Jaywalking Melrose Ave.

YouTube - Jay Walking- Bible

NBC.com < The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

NBC.com < The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

NBC.com < The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

NBC.com < The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

NBC.com < The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
 
I know the Star Spangled Banner's words, but I sing the Soviet national anthem more than the American one. Soviet Union had the best by far, and America has the absolute worst.
 
P/N said:
Try watching some of Jay Leno's "Jaywalking" segments from NBC's The Tonight Show and see what I mean. The US is chalked full of morons:
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Just a helpful tip as a way of helping to maintain vocabulary standards:

chock-full or chock·full (chkfl)
adj.
Full to the limit; as full as possible: a report chock-full of errors.
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YouTube - O Canada

O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
From far and wide, O Canada,
We stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.


I get chills listening to the song as well as from reading or singing or reciting the lyrics.

A great song.
 
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P/N said:
In answer to your question, yes I know my national anthem, and it doesn't surprise me that someone can elect a leader that doesn't know their own anthem. I'm sure there are a lot of people in the US who don't know our own national anthem, or the pledge of allegiance, or even who their state representative is. Don't give the US too much credit as we have our own share of dumbasses right here at home.
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I went to a Fourth of July fireworks celebration a couple years ago, and they had a local orchestra performing. When they played "America the Beautiful," nearly EVERY SINGLE PERSON (except me) out of a crowd of about 50,000 stood up. I swear that most of those people thought that that was the national anthem.
 
Gipper said:
I know the Star Spangled Banner's words, but I sing the Soviet national anthem more than the American one. Soviet Union had the best by far, and America has the absolute worst.
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OMG, I absolutely love the U.S. national anthem. It never ever fails to move me.
 
bhkad said:
Just a helpful tip as a way of helping to maintain vocabulary standards:
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Thanks grammar policeman. Forgive me, I just moved to the far south (Alabama) and my mind is blown at how bad they speak, spell and enunciate. I guess they are starting to rub off on me, and not in a good way.

:shock:
 
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Thanks grammar policeman. Forgive me, I just moved to the far south (Alabama) and my mind is blown at how bad they speak, spell and enunciate. I guess they are starting to rub off on me, and not in a good way.

:shock:
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It's important to realize others look up to you and follow your example. :)
 
Just sang it today at my high school's graduation. A nice tune, but I prefer Canada's- although my Chorale teacher likes to play the Star-Spangled Banner in A Minor, and it is beautifully melancholy (far more moving than the popular version).
 
Edify_Always_In_All_Ways said:
Just sang it today at my high school's graduation. A nice tune, but I prefer Canada's- although my Chorale teacher likes to play the Star-Spangled Banner in A Minor, and it is beautifully melancholy (far more moving than the popular version).
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You sing it at school?
 
Dezead said:
OMG, I absolutely love the U.S. national anthem. It never ever fails to move me.
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I'm speaking aesthetically. The song is far too disjunct, dissonent, and requires a range that only allows a very few people to be able to sing it without completely butchering it.

Lyrically it's fine, but from a singing standpoint it's painful to the ears. If you can sing it without messing up, you're among a rare breed.
 
Trinity said:
What song is this? : YouTube - What song is this?

Watch this and then u know why it is relevant to the OP :D

Most Americans won't recognize it :)
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wow that was GREAT :shock:

Gipper said:
I'm speaking aesthetically. The song is far too disjunct, dissonent, and requires a range that only allows a very few people to be able to sing it without completely butchering it.

Lyrically it's fine, but from a singing standpoint it's painful to the ears. If you can sing it without messing up, you're among a rare breed.
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What do you think about this one, "aesthetically"?

YouTube - De Vlaamse Leeuw - Flemish Anthem

Or this one?
YouTube - The European Union (anthem)
 
Gipper said:
I'm speaking aesthetically. The song is far too disjunct, dissonent, and requires a range that only allows a very few people to be able to sing it without completely butchering it.

Lyrically it's fine, but from a singing standpoint it's painful to the ears. If you can sing it without messing up, you're among a rare breed.
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Yeah, it does kind of suck that it's not song that just anyone can sing. Or that a group of friends could sing, etc.
 
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