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Bill: The Internationale Sounds Better in French Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Communist Party of Endralon
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill asks for an amendement to the Constitution. It will require two-thirds of the legislature to vote in favor. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: February 2072
Description[?]:
| Really. It does sound MUCH better in French (especially since the English version is full of archaic words and expressions). Therefore, since the French version is the original, and since no one said the language of Endralon is English, I propose we change our anthem to the French version of the Internationale. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The lyrics of the national anthem.
Old value:: The Internationale Arise ye workers from your slumbers Arise ye prisoners of want For reason in revolt now thunders And at last ends the age of cant. Away with all your superstitions Servile masses arise, arise We'll change henceforth the old tradition And spurn the dust to win the prize. CHORUS: So comrades, come rally And the last fight let us face The Internationale unites the human race. So comrades, come rally And the last fight let us face The Internationale unites the human race. No more deluded by reaction On tyrants only we'll make war The soldiers too will take strike action They'll break ranks and fight no more And if those cannibals keep trying To sacrifice us to their pride They soon shall hear the bullets flying We'll shoot the generals on our own side. CHORUS No saviour from on high delivers No faith have we in prince or peer Our own right hand the chains must shiver Chains of hatred, greed and fear E'er the thieves will out with their booty And give to all a happier lot. Each at the forge must do their duty And we'll strike while the iron is hot. CHORUS
Current:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgSs9fhBsvI Luthorian: Great hymns travel through the planet, old flags burn, your crypt has opened, rise quickly, oppressed Reason! Lead us into battle, we shall destroy all and on the ruins of nations will the World Federation flourish! (Written in dactylic hexameters in the original Syldavian.) Leading the raging uneducated brights in yellow the dirt-teeth of the monster rotting our existence: nation! you mind-nitty delusion of lunacies, history woke you with fire: with fire you shall fall back into the dust! Lead us into battle, oppressed Reason, and on the ruins of nations will the World Federation flourish! Syldavian: Nagyszerű himnuszok kÃsértenek, égnek a régi zászlók, felnyÃlt a koporsód, megalázott Ésszerűség! Vezess a csatába minket, pusztÃtsunk el mindent, s a nemzetek romjain fog majd virágozni a Világszövetség! Koszfoga felsárgállik a bÅ‘sz tanulatlanok élén emberi létünk megnyomorÃtó szörnyetegének: nemzet! te agytetves tévképzete elmebajoknak, tűzzel hányt az idÅ‘, majd tűzzel is éget a porba! Vezess a csatába minket, megalázott Ésszerűség, s a nemzetek romjain fog majd virágozni a Világszövetség! |
Proposed:
| L'Internationale Debout, les damnés de la terre! Debout, les forçats de la faim! La raison tonne en son cratère, C'est l'éruption de la fin. Du passé faisons table rase, Foule esclave, debout! debout! Le monde va changer de base: Nous ne sommes rien, soyons tout! CHORUS: C'est la lutte finale: Groupons-nous, et demain, L'Internationale Sera le genre humain. (bis) Il n'est pas de sauveurs suprêmes: Ni Dieu, ni César, ni tribun, Producteurs, sauvons-nous nous-mêmes! Décrétons le salut commun! Pour que le voleur rende gorge, Pour tirer l'esprit du cachot, Soufflons nous-memes notre forge, Battons le fer quand il est chaud! CHORUS Ouvriers, paysans, nous sommes Le grand parti des travailleurs; La terre n'appartient qu'aux hommes, L'oisif ira loger ailleurs. Combien de nos chairs se repaissent! Mais, si les corbeaux, les vautours, Un de ces matins, disparaissent, Le soleil brillera toujours! CHORUS |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:20:36, June 23, 2005 CET | From | International Socialist Party | To | Debating the The Internationale Sounds Better in French Act |
| Message | i no what you mean but i dont speak French anymore than i speak English, but the point is if you are French then you sing it in French as i am Scottish i should probably sing it in Gealic but i dont speak Gealic so i'll just settle for English. |
| Date | 23:31:29, June 23, 2005 CET | From | Democratic Socialists of Endralon | To | Debating the The Internationale Sounds Better in French Act |
| Message | I agree with ISP. |
| Date | 23:32:27, June 23, 2005 CET | From | Imperial Conservative Party | To | Debating the The Internationale Sounds Better in French Act |
| Message | Sing it in Russian you shameless reds! France is the home of Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite. Russia is the homeland of crazed collective farms and purges! |
| Date | 23:38:52, June 23, 2005 CET | From | Communist Party of Endralon | To | Debating the The Internationale Sounds Better in French Act |
| Message | We actually considered Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité as a possible motto for Endralon once. We love it. And France was the home of the Paris Commune, the first large-scale communist society in history! |
| Date | 23:40:56, June 23, 2005 CET | From | Communist Party of Endralon | To | Debating the The Internationale Sounds Better in French Act |
| Message | Ok, so you don't know French... but the Internationale sounds so good in French! ... |
| Date | 23:50:38, June 23, 2005 CET | From | Unified Communist Labor Party | To | Debating the The Internationale Sounds Better in French Act |
| Message | Mais bien sur que je support changer la langue de la hymne nationale a la Francais. C'est normal. :-) |
| Date | 00:20:09, June 24, 2005 CET | From | Communist Party of Endralon | To | Debating the The Internationale Sounds Better in French Act |
| Message | Malheureusement, il semble que nous sommes les seuls francophones par ici... :( |
| Date | 02:32:04, June 24, 2005 CET | From | International Socialist Party | To | Debating the The Internationale Sounds Better in French Act |
| Message | La jeunesse sont las flammes du revoltion |
| Date | 13:25:26, June 24, 2005 CET | From | MLC Old Endralonian Resistance | To | Debating the The Internationale Sounds Better in French Act |
| Message | I agree it sounds clumsy in english , I'll support this bill although really the language is irrelevant its the spirit of the song , I consider our anthem this song translated into every language in existance , it should roll of the tongue of any worker who can connect to the sentiment it expresses |
| Date | 18:42:11, June 24, 2005 CET | From | Abandoned NFC Headquarters | To | Debating the The Internationale Sounds Better in French Act |
| Message | Nope. No support. German or Russian, perhaps, but not one of the others. I speak German and Russian both fairly fluently. OOC: What happened to all the rational Communist parties...*cries* P. S. They must have died when the Conservative Party did. |
| Date | 23:27:42, June 24, 2005 CET | From | Communist Party of Endralon | To | Debating the The Internationale Sounds Better in French Act |
| Message | Huh? We have the same communist parties we always did... |
| Date | 23:45:52, June 24, 2005 CET | From | Imperial Conservative Party | To | Debating the The Internationale Sounds Better in French Act |
| Message | Voting yes, anything so long as we don't have to understand it! |
| Date | 00:56:57, June 25, 2005 CET | From | People's Liberation Front (PPP) | To | Debating the The Internationale Sounds Better in French Act |
| Message | We would rather keep it to English so that most everyone can understand it. |
| Date | 00:58:19, June 26, 2005 CET | From | Imperial Conservative Party | To | Debating the The Internationale Sounds Better in French Act |
| Message | Damn you! Latin would be even better. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 214 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 437 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 6 |
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