History: AmericanNationalAnthem

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''merko gricniselsanga'' ---- xu do kakne lenu viska fi le murse gusni fe noi mi rinsa ne zvati le lidne murse ne le ganra dasri .e carmi tarci ''xu ka'eku do viska'' seems like a better first line. (Except I suspect there ought to be a better member of CAhA than ''ka'e'' for this.) There are other things to worry about... like ''fe noi mi rinsa ne zvati'' isn't grammatical. We have ''noi'' not part of a sumti, and ''ne'' linking a brivla... Proves that you can't afford to ignore selma'o in learning Lojban :-) -- mi'e nitcion, who patches up the foregoing to: xu do kakne lenu viska fi le murse gusni fe __le__ noi mi rinsa __ku'o__ zvati __be__ le lidne murse ne le ganra dasri .e __le__ carmi tarci Or: ''caxuku do dorcfa darviska le fanmo vacmurse se cliva je seljgi be ma'a'' (I much prefer ''la mertut. dontutra'' myself.) ---- A loose translation of the original words, an 18th century drinking song: fi la nakrion. seka'a le tsani poi se zutse la ny. fa lei bersa be lenu panpi cu benji le xe cpedu be lenu la ny. stidi joi stani le by .i vizykla fi le gleki laldo xelso fa lu voksa .e zgica'a na za'o smaji .i mi te jbera fi do fe le mi cmene joi stidi do .ije mi ctuca do lenu jmina le venus. jbarnmirtu fi le bakys. vanju ''I've decided that, of the ways to make 'Anacreon' fit the rythm in lojban, 'nakrion' is better than 'ankrion' or 'anakron'.'' Eh, rhythm? I sure can't sing that rendering, so I don't see why it matters. And while normally I wouldn't be nasty about grammar errors, if you're going to use Votes Of No Confidence in Lojban like ''laldo'', at least learn Lojban grammar well enough beforehand not to say "voksa .e zgica'a". Try this: (http://www.bcpl.net/~etowner/anacreon.html) fi la .anakreon. nevi le tsani noi gleki se zutse vo'e fa so'o bersa tarti nelci be leka zgisarxe cu benji lo ve cpedu belenu vo'e selsidbymukti je bandu vo'a .i bazibo le di'e danfu cu se tirna gi'e se cusku le gleki ke tolcitno xelso .i lu .i doi voksa jonai jgita jonai flani ko co'u smaji .i mi curmi le nu do pilno lemi cmene kei gi'e ji'a selsidbymukti do .i mi ctuca fi do lenu ji'a simsa mi lenu jmina le la venus. spatrmirtle le la bakxus. vanjyspati li'u --- nitcion ''doi voksa doi jgita doi flani'' - when you are done with that you are only addressing the flan. The Refgramm strongly implies so, at least; so altered.