Comments on: Partiality and impartiality

By: Harold

Harold — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:45:25 +0000

AZIL is the word used by Tonio Borg when he was Minister for the Interior,
AZIL is the word used by Karm Mifsud Bonnici as Minister for the Interior.
AZIL is the word written in the LAWS OF MALTA.

ASYLUM = AZIL
EXILE = EZILJU both have the same meaning

By: Paul Borg

Paul Borg — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:20:16 +0000

We should do away with the Maltese language and its inefficiencies altogether. Although unique and part of our culture, it’s undoubtedly incomplete and imprecise. The advantages of phasing it out of our national curriculum are numerous, not so the disadvantages.

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:10:45 +0000

@ Daphne

I hope you don’t count me as one of your enemies. Believe me you have my heartfelt admiration though I don’t always agree with you.

[Daphne – I don’t even know who you are!]

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:06:53 +0000

@ Antoine Vella

I don’t like persons who try to ridicule anything which has to do with Labour. I hate to see people who frivolously try to judge someone for a single word which was pronounced wrongly, like the majority of the broadcasters after all! I believe, Mr Vella, in decent and cordial dialogue where different views are expressed objectively. Judging a person for a mistake is a clear example of an ‘I know better’ mentality that unfortunately is very common on this interesting site. Accepting different views than yours is a virtue………..

By: Antoine Vella

Antoine Vella — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:26:41 +0000

Alan

“..I have no prejudice at any of the media…”

Perhaps you have no prejudice against the media (I find it hard to believe but am taking your word for it) but you’ve certainly displayed aggressive prejudice against Jane.

By: Corinne Vella

Corinne Vella — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:00:15 +0000

Alan: My apologies. I wasn’t aware that you are a media expert, nor that you knew I am not.

I’m impressed that you follow all media. How many eyes and ears do you have?

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:51:51 +0000

Corinne, I can assure you that I follow all media which put me in a position to speak. I believe that yo do the same with the difference that I have no prejudice at any of the media and filter the news in an objective manner

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:59:42 +0000

@ Daphne

Yes you’re right. And here I was thinking that my Maltese was better than Owen’s!

[Daphne – And there are my enemies, deluding themselves that I know no Maltese at all, because they don’t know that I grew up in a Maltese-speaking family (proper Maltese, that is, not working-class dialect).]

By: Corinne Vella

Corinne Vella — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:48:59 +0000

Alan: Listening to, watching and reading media with which one does not identify can be informative and entertaining. You should try it sometime. It might even cheer you up.

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:34:30 +0000

@ John Schembri

I suppose Dr.Bonnici must have heard the word ‘ezilju’ in his Law lectures.I was never aware of the word ‘azil’ in Maltese. The closest this word comes to is the word ‘asile’ in Italian which means something totally different.

@ Alan

Actually I had my T.V.on and I was going through the channels whilst having my breakfast.But don’t worry, that’s all I heard because I wanted to enjoy my breakfast and I couldn’t stomach something else to spoil it for me.

[Daphne – Now I always thought ‘ezilju’ was exile, and a quick look at Aquilina confirms it. There isn’t a Maltese word that covers the legal concept of asylum, though the general concept is covered by ‘kenn’, which really means nothing more than shelter. So maybe what you’re thinking about is ‘azilju’? I’ve never heard it myself. ‘Azil’ is ridiculous, a truncated form of the Italian ‘asilo’, as used for nurseries.]