Dear AWS/CCG Staff,

Thank you very much for the instructions on posting new songs and translations. I think they are very useful not only to newcomers but also to people like myself who have been doing this for years.

I also think that it might be a good idea to put them on your main page as a hyperlink titled "Instructions to contributors".

There's one important thing that could also be addressed in those instructions. Anglo-American songwriters have their own way to write lyrics, i.e. with every new line starting with a capital letter and little or no punctuation. The result is that on lyrics pages song texts written in languages other than English have often been reproduced in this Anglo-American way. This, however, is not how lyrics are written in Swedish or Finnish or French or German or...

Here's for instance how "Medan bomberna faller" by Björn Afzelius looks like at genius.com. I'm 100 percent sure that Afzelius would never have written his lyrics in this way.

Dear Juha,

You are absolutely right. This is a very good idea and we'll put it in practice as soon as possible. Of course, the instructions will be translated into the site's languages (Italian, French, Finnish) and we kindly ask you for help as regards Finnish.

The way of writing and showing lyrics has always been a serious problem since the very first day of this website. The result is, of course, great lack of conformity: our website is approaching 30,000 songs and the "CCG/AWS Staff" (now CCG/AWS/SVL Staff, including Finnish), or "Admins", consists in 6 (six) people scattered here and there. This may be seen as a bit of a joke, because we sometimes have received messages or e-mails asking us where are the headquarters of our foundation or institution, if in London, Rome or New York. We are not kidding.

What we have always done, or tried to do, is editing song lyrics often submitted... (continua)

Dear AWS/CCG Staff,

Of course, I'm glad to help you with the Finnish version of the instructions. And of course, I'm thrilled and most of all flattered that my tiny, curious, weird and difficult language has been granted a status on this webpage. On the other hand, I seem to be the only living soul from Finland contributing to this page and as such I don't need any Finnish instructions. Surely, I'd be more than glad if there were other contributors, a lot of them, from my country. I just don't have a clue how to make that happen. I know that I would find them lost and buried in social media (I wonder what's social about them), but that, my friends, is a gloomy, scary, dangerous world I simply refuse to have anything whatsoever to do with.

By the way, I have always realized that there is no Antiwarsongs Headquarters, but still I like to think of you as a bunch of enthusiastic people working passionately under one roof and shouting hellos, comments and ideas from one corner of the office to another. But surely you meet each other every now and then, don't you?

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