My Nazi-detector goes off for a lot of that stuff too, to be honest, though mine is a lot more sensitive than the average “decent” person from an English-speaking country. I think the English are just authoritarian at heart.[quote=“zathras, post:72, topic:90683”]
After two years of heated debates, which included some really atrocious proposals on how to fix it, these things were officially changed in 2012. It will take a couple of decades until everyone agrees on the lyrics again, but as hardly anyone ever sings it, no one will notice.
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Our last government inexplicably said we should update the lyrics to O Canada (inexplicably becuase they were neoconservatives, but you never know). In particular the “In all thy sons’ command” line. I think people largely reacted by saying, “Isn’t there anything better we could be discussing?” I’d like to update it, most people don’t.
