@MattE.Эллен just to tag someone's attention to the message above.
When the situation has been sorted out, as I'm sure it will, someone can redact the relevant messages above as there is no good reason for any one to be recorded for "posterity". Thanks
Oh say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed, at the twilight's last gleaming, whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight o'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
What does "o'er the ramparts we watched" modify? Does it modify "the fight"?
As in, the particular fight I'm talking about is the perilous fight o'er the ramparts we watched?
Or is it perhaps modifying "stripes and stars"? I'm talking about something whose stripes and stars o'er the ramparts we watched?
It would make sense if it were whose broad stripes and bright stars o'er the ramparts we watched, through the perilous fight, were so gallantly streaming.
perhaps I'm wrong. it seems like it's the flag they're watching, but it is poetic, rather than regular speach, so perhaps there are multiple interpretations
As it is, there's apparently a discontinuity. The phrase "broad stripes and bright stars o'er the ramparts we watched" is interrupted by "through the perilous fight."
Or perhaps there's just one phrase modifying "stripes and stars," that being "through the perilous fight o'er the ramparts we watched."
As in: stripes and stars which we watched, through the perilous fight, and o'er the ramparts.
Aux armes citoyens! Formez vos bataillons! Marchons, marchons, Qu'un sang impur abreuve nos sillons Que veut cette horde d'esclaves De traîtres, de Rois conjurés? Pour qui ces ignobles entraves, Ces fers dès longtemps préparés? × 2 Français! pour nous, ah! quel outrage! Quels transports il doit exciter! C'est nous qu'on ose méditer De rendre à l'antique esclavage!
Re: surnames, 1 in 8 in Tuvalu are named Smith; ~3 million in the US are, so Tuvalu doesn't seem so special... It just seems like a family went on vacation and decided to stay there for whatever reason. Meanwhile, we've been inundated with people who had a trade or a sketchy background; it's unclear.
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