Can you sing your national anthem from memory?

[evan@cosocial.ca]

Can you sing your national anthem from memory?

#EvanPoll #poll

[johannab@cosocial.ca]

@evan ... but I may have lost some of the French lyrics by now.

[johnefrancis@cosocial.ca]

@evan yes, but I'm not great on nailing the recent edits in the French version.

[bathyspherehat@mastodon.online]

@evan I can sing the US's badly, but I don't know the Uruguay one.

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@BathysphereHat I bet there is a formal one and an informal one that's much more fun.

[luc@chaos.social]

@evan this would be interesting as a
- Yes + I'm from the USA
- Yes + I'm not from the USA
- No + I'm from the USA
- No + I'm not from the USA

to see how many of the "yes"es are just that one country that puts a lot of value in its PR. North Korea would be interesting for similar reasons but probably not many respondents on Mastodon 😁

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@luc do it!

[evan@cosocial.ca]

Thanks all. I'm a Yes, But. I can sing the anthem of the country I grew up in, and I can sing the anthem of the country I live in, mostly, in English, and kind of, in French. I can kind of sing the royal anthem in English, and not in French. (Canada has a lot of anthems.) I like singing the chorus of "Gens du Pays", especially for birthdays.

[greg_b@climatejustice.social]

@evan #respect for your #language, #music, and #communication skills. I just saw a podcast about being #stateless. What was the reason for your poll? How significant is singing a national anthem as a community building exercise, do you think?

https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/p0mkcw6q

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@greg_b I was watching Love, Actually and the UK and US anthems were in the movie.