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Feb 27, 2013

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWGZdYNpaSo
 
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More lyrics Feb 27, 2013

This was published in the journal of the UK Institute of Linguists at the time of the creation of the Single Economic Market in the EU (or EEC as I think it was then).

ODE TO THE SEM
(to the tune “Ode to Joy” in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony)

Freude am Eoraip now united,
Joie au rêve de Jacques Delors;
Single Marghadh (nun heiratet):
¡Regojico evermore!
Gioia e pace sia per noi
Ce mariage (de convenance?)
Deutsch mit Françai... See more
This was published in the journal of the UK Institute of Linguists at the time of the creation of the Single Economic Market in the EU (or EEC as I think it was then).

ODE TO THE SEM
(to the tune “Ode to Joy” in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony)

Freude am Eoraip now united,
Joie au rêve de Jacques Delors;
Single Marghadh (nun heiratet):
¡Regojico evermore!
Gioia e pace sia per noi
Ce mariage (de convenance?)
Deutsch mit Français, Dansk to English,
Español con Nederlands.

Fédération? Groupe de nations?
Heller Himmel, Zollverein?
Help our weaker fellows onwards
- And the English not to whine.

Seid umschlungen, alle Menschen;
Lass uns alles Brüder sein.
De som vil det diskutere
Schlagen wir sein Schädel ein!
Cara, Brussels’ SEMiotics,
SEMincomprensibile:
Logographic acronymics –
PETRA, COMETT, EURYCLEE.
Traduttore, traditore,
May they never lack employ!
¿Más pays veulent farsi miembros?
Zelfs meer talen? Oh what joy!

Look we back or look we forward,
Nous voyons un åge d’or:
Will we soon elect the first new
Whole Euroman Emperor?
Europe loue em jubilação
The free market’s Heiligtum:
Coletivista aberração?
No. Bundeselysium!

Elysium! Elysium! Unserer Elysium!

Michael E. Martin



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Thanks Jack, Feb 27, 2013

for the info.

I find this hilarious, since it's sung in broken German, mostly using loanwords from German where English speakers can easily understand.
 


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