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Old 04-28-2006, 04:01 PM   #5
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Retarded or not, a national anthem is not something you translate to a different language. Just leave that alone. Songs, generally, do not translate well - since rhyming and poetry and imagery all matter intensely. But it's vaguely insulting to sing a national anthem in a foreign tongue, and blatently insulting to change the lyrics to a purposeful new meaning.

(Of course, at that point, isn't it just a parody rather than a translation?)
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