This is so actual, don't you think

RedMan   Thu Feb 12, 2009 1:32 pm GMT
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.
Refrain
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.

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.
Laura Braun   Thu Feb 12, 2009 2:02 pm GMT
No communism. That's a bad word.
Really bad word.
Scarlett Johansson   Thu Feb 12, 2009 4:44 pm GMT
od   Thu Feb 12, 2009 6:52 pm GMT
communism.

Communism is a magnificent word. I'm not referring to the old URSS or stuff like that
Join the Party   Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:18 pm GMT
Lotta Continua   Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:35 pm GMT
Lotta Fagina   Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:56 pm GMT
just curious   Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:56 pm GMT
Lotta Continua

vi sono dei comunisti italiani nei paraggi?
boyntonville bumpkin   Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:19 am GMT
The most interesting part of this thread is the use of "actual" in the therad title. I assume the OP is a native speaker of a language where actual/aktual/actuelle/etc. means something else.
slime   Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:24 am GMT
It is not correct, albeit uncommon usage in English too?
Lotta Continua   Fri Feb 13, 2009 7:37 pm GMT
Certamente sono comunisti internazionalisti.
Luca   Sat Feb 14, 2009 5:06 pm GMT
if we look about what is happening today all over the world, this song is a good choice. And communism is not a bad word.
olasz   Sat Feb 14, 2009 5:08 pm GMT
Certamente sono comunisti internazionalisti

This sentence was not written by a native speaker of Italian :-)
Invité d'honneur   Sat Feb 14, 2009 10:34 pm GMT
<<The most interesting part of this thread is the use of "actual" in the therad title. I assume the OP is a native speaker of a language where actual/aktual/actuelle/etc. means something else. >>

Yeah. I'm guessing a native speaker of a Romance language where actuel/actual/attuale means "topical". So what he probably meant was that the lyrics of "the Internationale" were still relevant today.
luca   Sun Feb 15, 2009 12:58 pm GMT
Invité d'honneur,

I am french and what you wrote is exactly what i thought i wrote. Thanlk you.