TigerHawk

TigerHawk (ti*ger*hawk): n. 1. The title of this blog and the nom de plume of its founding blogger; 2. A deep bow to the Princeton Tigers and the Iowa Hawkeyes; 3. The nickname for Iowa's Hawkeye logo. Posts include thoughts of the day on international affairs, politics, things that strike us as hilarious and personal observations. The opinions we express are our own, and not those of each other, our employers, our relatives, our dead ancestors, or unrelated people of similar ethnicity.

Friday, April 28, 2006

Deploring the English, but only in English

By TigerHawk at 4/28/2006 09:23:00 PM

"The Star Spangled Banner" was written to commemorate a war against the English. Now, our President says that it should be sung in English.

Just sayin', is all. Who would want to hear "La Marseillaise" in any language other than French (MP3)?

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5 Comments:

By Anonymous, at Sat Apr 29, 04:14:00 AM:

. . . and just to complicate things further, the war was fought against an English king who was born and raised German, and never could be bothered to learn the English language.

And just to top it off, English was never declared the official language of the Several Sovereign States because the Congress repeatedly deadlocked between the advocates of English and German.

By TigerHawk, at Sat Apr 29, 07:59:00 AM:

Excellent additional points!

By Anonymous, at Sat Apr 29, 10:31:00 AM:

i am quite accustomed to hearing 'oh canada' sung in alternating english and french stanzas - at least at hockey games. perhaps the anglo canadians resent that, but i don't know.

marc - pittsburgh

By Dawnfire82, at Sat Apr 29, 04:03:00 PM:

Kind George III did actually speak English as his first language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_III_of_Great_Britain

I love Wikipedia.

By Anonymous, at Sun Apr 30, 03:37:00 PM:

Don't lets get silly about this.

They have changed the words!!!!!