Is the pens witch Africa
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July 23, 2013 at 3:16pm
Read it aloud and you’ll get what she means.
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Oh my god. Is the pens = it depends.
I’m tempted to look it up and click on “Report abuse”. I’ve never witnessed worse abuse of the English language.
Is the pens witch part of Malta you come from too.
It (is?) depends which….
I read the original and just thought it was just another unchecked ‘predictive text’ mistake and I moved on. But it’s not – it’s actually a shocking spelling/grammar/pronunciation mistake, from someone whose English is so bad, she clearly doesn’t even read so much as the back of the cereal packet!
Thanks for the laugh.
is the pens witch = it depends which? seriously?
How did she manage that?
J-s-s !! Could she possibly mean ‘it depends which’ ?
Itis apis potanda bigone
It depends ….?
The quality of our MPs is surely without equal in the rest of the breathing world! And as for the implications of what she’s trying to say…..
Do you mean you believe that the person who penned this is Deborah Schembri LLD, MP?
I’m sure the name is a coincidence. Anyway, D. Schembri the MP calls herself “tad-divorzju” and not “Debbie”.
Dear Debbie wen eye was like 5 yers in sejnt Joseph in strada kateddrale sister Mery teach me det only wan Africa there is.
wot you mean is the pens witch Africa? mela der ar more?
priceless
No dear ‘Dutchie’, I beg to differ. By large St Joseph Convent, Sliema had impeccable written English, unsurpassed diction and excellent deportment. I say ‘had’ because in my time (before populist Mr. Mintoff pulled the class strings and destroyed education in general so that our children now can neither speak & spell Maltese or English properly) our teachers were mostly foreign nuns coming from the best English, Irish, French and Italian families.
Our lay teachers were equally unsurpassable. We were made to take pages of the Concise Oxford Dictionary and literally study it for the duration of the scholastic year. We were taught how to express ourselves eloquently and unequivocally verbally or in writing, we were taught etiquette, how to sit and eat properly at table.
We wore hats, changed uniforms according to what time of day it was and which activity we were taking part in. None of us ‘is the pensed’ for sure. Now if Debbie Tad-Divorzju has appalling spelling and attended St Joseph Convent, Sliema it is highly offensive and discriminatory to judge her low education and appalling spelling by the school she attended.
It is insulting to all those girls and boys who went to this excellent school and excelled in their careers. ‘Thank you Dumink!…your beloved Debbie’….or maybe she could be dyslexic? That’s a bit kinder.
Mejbi xi tranzlejt it wit gugil from moltis?
Isn’t she supposed to be a lawyer? How the hell did she manage to get her degree?
[Daphne – It’s not Deborah Schembri.]
Oh! It’s not? Then is the pens…
remember you are not Africa person so they trite you good
Mela mhux bhal push back Joseph.
Is this THE Debbie Schembri, the lawyer?
[Daphne – Of course not.]
There should be a law against such massacring of the English language.
I do wish NET TV would find the time to engage a newscaster who is capable of saying ‘William’ rather than ‘Willyum’.
Surely there must be someone somewhere in Malta who can manage the pronunciation.
[Daphne – Oh come on, John, not when for years we had two prime ministers, one called Law-rense Gonzi and the other called Lorrins Gonzi.]
And when the newscaster of the News in English on TVM stated that “You Ass President said…” (read U.S. President…)
I remember Prim Sch 11 year olds writing one sapon a time
http://9wtf.com/pic/Meme-R.I.P-English
Crikes! Not in a million years would I have deciphered that. The question of the day would be whether Mizzi deciphered that!
Did this person ever go to school?
“POSTED BY: MEP — 23/07/2013 12:07:05 Dear Gervais.cishahayo, This is Marlene Mizzi calling ( system did not allow me to use my name as ‘username” as it was already taken), but I like writing under my own name not fancy non-de plumes. You are perfectly right , I am not an expert on Africa. Few of us are. But, at least I do try to understand what the problems are and what the solutions can be. Therefore, methinks your sarcasm is out of place, considering that YOUR last sentence is repeating ,and agreeing with, the thrust of my non-expert ‘preaching ‘ ! Evidently you did not bother to read the write –up. Believe me, it would have been much easier to do what everyone else does on this matter- preach from their air conditioned offices – as I sometimes have done myself. At least I got off my butt and joined a delegation to Nigeria – not exactly a holiday destination – to see for myself. Such field visits are risky business -when you are told not to move from your hotel for fear of kidnapping, and are surrounded by the militia brandishing Kalashnikovs where ever you go. For your guidance, the African MPs were not as callous about our interventions, nor as arrogant. They listened. I am sure that they heard it all before, but we were not there to inform them of the existence of the wheel, but to do our bit and discuss and debate what can be done. I am sure that I did not solve Africa’s problems, or Europe’s immigration issues, but I am satisfied that I did what I can do in the circumstances. You may wish to know that as the ‘ new african expert” ( I assume you meant the new expert on Africa, since I am undoubtedly Maltese!) my contributions were considered to be useful, practical and sensible , by the experts on Africa themselves – the African MPs.That was pretty satisfying.”
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/national/Marlene-Mizzi-represents-the-European-Parliament-in-Abuja-Nigeria-20130722
Hilarious.
I think Daphne should get a pullet surprise.
‘a pullet surprise.’ Brilliant. Must remember this one. It’s almost as good as the news reader reading IOC (International Olympic Committee) as ‘ten cents.’
That’s nothing.
I was chatting with Kenneth Zammit Tabona the other day, about the Manoel’s concert schedule. “I look forward to seeing your great pianist tonight,” I said.
Imagine my surprise when…
who is this ignoramus ?
Careful there. Someone who writes “from now on wards as it will be cheaper” and “Bye the way” should not be so quick to call others ignoramuses.
Hilarious if it was not so sadly true. or she may be practising for the future:
A VISION OF THE FUTURE…
Having chosen English as the preferred language in the EU, the European
Parliament has commissioned a feasibility study in ways of improving
efficiency in communications between departments.
European officials have often pointed out that English spelling is
unnecessarily difficult; for example: cough, plough, rough, through and
thorough. What is clearly needed is a phased program of changes to iron
out these anomalies. The program would, of course, be administered by a
committee staff at top level by participating nations.
In the first year, for example, the committee would suggest using ‘s’
instead of the soft ‘c’. Sertainly, sivil servants in all sities would
resieve this news with joy. Then the hard ‘c’ could be replaced by ‘k’
sinse both letters are pronounsed alike. Not only would this klear up
konfusion in the minds of klerikal workers, but typewriters kould be made
with one less letter.
There would be growing enthusiasm when in the sekond year, it was anounsed
that the troublesome ‘ph’ would henseforth be written ‘f’. This would make
words like ‘fotograf’ twenty per sent shorter in print.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted
to reash the stage where more komplikated shanges are possible.
Governments would enkourage the removal of double letters which have
always been a deterent to akurate speling.
We would al agre that the horible mes of silent ‘e’s in the languag is
disgrasful. Therefor we kould drop thes and kontinu to read and writ as
though nothing had hapend. By this tim it would be four years sins the
skem began and peopl would be reseptive to steps sutsh as replasing ‘th’
by ‘z’. Perhaps zen ze funktion of ‘w’ kould be taken on by ‘v’, vitsh is,
after al, half a ‘w’. Shortly after zis, ze unesesary ‘o’ kould be dropd
from words kontaining ‘ou’. Similar arguments vud of kors be aplid to ozer
kombinations of leters.
Kontinuing zis proses yer after yer, ve vud eventuli hav a reli sensibl
riten styl. After tventi yers zer vud be no mor trubls, difikultis and
evrivun vud fin it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drems of ze Guvernmnt
vud finali hav kum tru.
Thanks for the laugh!
And yet she has a vote.