Star Spanglish Banter
Posted May 3rd, 2006 by Chip Bok
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The Star Spangled Banner was a poem written by Francis Scott Key during the bombardment of Fort McHenry during the War of 1812. The hit poem was later set to the tune of a popular drinking song and soon replaced 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall as our national anthem.
After the U.S. surrender to Mexico in 2006 the anthem was changed to Spanish. The actual meaning of the lyrics were also altered. Roughly translated from the Spanish, the anthem now says, "although your water is safer, our cerveza is better".
May 3rd, 2006 at 1:20 pm
Before any of you patriots out there get your panties in a wad over the SSB being sung in Spanish consider this; If you say the Lord's Prayer, unless you recite it in Aramaic ( orther something close to that ), you're not saying it in it's original language or in it's original wording.
All righty then?
May 3rd, 2006 at 2:46 pm
Menchen, dammit. The only thing that gets my panties in a wad is the promiscuous use of the apostrophe. Do you use an apostrophe in "his" or "hers?" Of course not. "Its" is the possessive form of the genderless "it". "It's" is a contraction of "it is." This is not too hard.
May 3rd, 2006 at 5:41 pm
Seeing as though you muffed the name, I'd say we be even.
May 3rd, 2006 at 7:02 pm
GP, speaking of too hard, I think your question mark is
getting aroused by my promiscuous apostrophe. Better keep
an eye on it or we're going to have a litter of dangling modifiers.
I vote we call the first born "Larry".
May 4th, 2006 at 2:53 pm
Chip: Beautiful!
May 4th, 2006 at 6:15 pm
Hey Munch'n! I don't have anything to do with it but anyone who chooses handles like "mencken" and "wordsmith" leaves himself wide open to grammatical criticism.
May 5th, 2006 at 3:20 am
Maybe wordsmith refers to something else.
May 5th, 2006 at 10:42 am
larry, I'll take the criticism for the grammar gaffes if you dole some out to Basil the Rat for not really being a furry four-legged rodent and Batman for not really being The Caped Crusader. It should be obvious by now that "wordsmith" has nothing to do with my profession. The word just popped in my head. It's not anymore complicated than that.
As for Mencken, I have no idea whether HL was a great writer or not, but I'm pretty damn sure that he possessed one of the great minds of his day. There's also a pretty good chance I fall short of his mark in that area as well. No matter. All boys have their heroes.
I admit I throw some elbows under the basket, but I'm just trying get things going here for Chip. ( well some of it might be for sport….all right …. most of it )
Apparently that is only working to a small degree. And to the Grammar Policeman, I assure you that from now on I will make sure my apostrophes are home at a decent hour.
May 5th, 2006 at 10:48 am
larry, I'll take the criticism for the grammar gaffes if you dole some out to Basil the Rat for not really being a furry four-legged rodent and Batman for not really being The Caped Crusader. It should be obvious by now that "wordsmith" has nothing to do with my profession. The word just popped in my head. It's not anymore complicated than that.
As for Mencken, I have no idea whether HL was a great writer or not, but I'm pretty damn sure that he possessed one of the
great minds of his day. There's also a pretty good chance I fall short of his mark in that area as well. No matter. All boys have their heroes.
I admit I throw some elbows under the basket, but I'm just trying get things going here for Chip. ( well some of it might be for sport….all right …. most of it )
Apparently that is only working to a small degree. And to the Grammar Policeman, I assure you that from now on I will make sure my apostrophes are home at a decent hour.
May 5th, 2006 at 12:54 pm
It was just an observation.
May 5th, 2006 at 1:36 pm
Avast ye mencken! Prepare to tussle for I am a Rat…of the Bilge variety.
Please refrain from mistaking me for the lowly homo sapien I must employ to type my thoughts to screen.
May 9th, 2006 at 8:36 am
Gads- you people have become my new disfunctional morning family.