Comments on: Another fetishist

By: toby

toby — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:04:01 +0000

when will this woman fuck off? DAPHNE, GET A GRIP!

[Daphne – On what, Muscat’s eggs? He must have stopped counting them by now, surely.]

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:57:09 +0000

Mr. Farrugia strikes back!
See: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080908/local/dialects-flaunted-at-gozo-activity

(Daphne – The best bit is towards the end of the little video, where the sindku says ‘tenkju, tenkju’. Is that in the brajku dialect, too?)

By: Corinne Vella

Corinne Vella — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:16:29 +0000

I’ve just seen that letter by Joseph Ellul. He says he was mistaken for a Londoner. I wonder what type that was…

By: John Schembri

John Schembri — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:27:07 +0000

@ David ; Ajruport was inexistent before WW2 there were some flights from Ta’ Qali I believe by Ala Littoria(?) . A real good airport was Luqa Airport , There were a lot of ‘runways ‘ Karwijja , Hal-Far , Qrendi , Ta’ Qali and Xewkija (built in record time) The British after the war wanted to ‘give’ us something which did not cost a lot but at the same time made us feel proud so they wrote “MITJAR” which is perfectly Maltese and people like you found it hard to use.
Daphne’s word “iddomm” fits perfectly the exam question , I would have used “issensel” but I know that in Arabic “sensiela” means chain.

BTW :Xmara is of Sicilian origin : the Sicilians pronounce an X instead of an F eg: fiori becomes (X) Sciuri , so Fiume then Fiumara then Sciumara = Xmara.

Back to work

By: John Schembri

John Schembri — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:06:47 +0000

Another attack from Zurrieq ; http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=74846.

BTW I think BRAJKU is/was a dialect , I think some people from Gharb used to communicate in this dialect which probably originated from Hebrew : “EBRAICO”.

(Daphne – You would have thought that he would have bothered to find out how ‘vowel’ is spelt.)

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:45:38 +0000

http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/history/profile?person=AgiusDionisiusA

He’s currently at Exeter University:
http://www.huss.ex.ac.uk/iais/staff/agius/

[Daphne – Now that’s what I call service.]

By: Corinne Vella

Corinne Vella — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:17:03 +0000

amrio: ‘sigarett’ reflects the correct pronunciation of ‘cigarette'(which, anyway, is a French word)so it’s less problematic than blekbort, gerzijiet, xorz, and so on, which are spelt incorrectly because they reflect incorrect pronunciation.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:22:10 +0000

Amazon says it’s temporarily out of stock. Does this mean it’s out of print? Does anyone know the author or where he can be reached?

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:20:42 +0000

H. P. Baxxter posted this comment and it went into the spam folder (it happens a lot with comments containing links – an over-zealous filter), so I’ve cut and pasted it here.

It’s Dionisius, not Dionysius. My mistake.

Here you go:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Siculo-Arabic-Library-Linguistics/dp/0710304978

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:50:25 +0000

It’s Dionisius, not Dionysius. My mistake.

Here you go:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Siculo-Arabic-Library-Linguistics/dp/0710304978