J Spiteri (1 hour, 2 minutes ago)
@ Barbu,

Same here in Msida. Its irresistible ! Had to leave my house.

Andre Muscat (9 hours, 48 minutes ago)
The committee running this circus tent and football stadium entrance have dwindled these magestic temples which for the last 5000 yrs perhaps even more have dicided for commercial purposes and comfort to shade the temples with this horror!!!! ASK THE ENGLISH EXPERTS WHY THEY HAVENT COVERED STONEHENGE WITH THE SAME HIGHTECH!!! MALTESE CIRCUS TENT!!!
All we have are stand by experts of the day without any insight.
The temples were built to resonate the plasma energy and electromagnetic waveslengths falling on them and CHART THE HEAVENS, SUN VENUS AND MOON POSITION TO WARN US OF PREVIOUS AND FUTURE POLE SHIFTS. these have been covered!!!by the 2009 unprofessional masters of tourism to utilize EU funds.
These should have been left in their natural environment treat the stone in a sientific manner and they would still survive another couple of thousand years.
By that time the Department of authority responsible will become the archeological site remembered for ruining our maltese heritage. WHY DONT YOU GO AND HAVE ANOTHER 360 Deg PHOTO OF OUR LOVELY CIRCUS TENT FOR OUR NEXT REPRINT TOURIST BROUCHERE.

Cast a line? Ah, yes, of course…the Curia is fishing for souls.

You are right, Fausto. It should be ‘non un solo millimetro’ or, better, ‘neanche un millimetro’.

“One thought comes to mind. My god, these people breed and they also vote. Is this a true representation of the Maltese mentality? Has proficiency in English deteriorated to this extent? I left Malta nearly 30 years ago, but visit very often, and will continue to do so, but I never thought that there was such underlying ignorance.”

I wonder why proficiency in English has deteriorated in these last 30 years….

“To Cornelius’ point: it is much more damning to editorial team at The Times, who allow its standard to drop to this abysmal level, with semi-literate idiots on its pages”

That’s the concept of Web 2.0, web interactivity for the masses. What can you expect? Some Graham Greene novel written on The Times’ comments boards?

” Fr Joe Borg, Fr Peter Serracino Inglott and to a much greater extent Fr Mark Montebello have all expressed views which can be said to be not precisely in tune with the line which Curia officials have cast for priests to toe.”

It seems that mediocrity in the “national” English-language weekly is to found across the board!

I wonder why you’re still living here then, if everything the Maltese do is substandard or below your expectations.

Rather than laughing superficially at the less than perfect spelling/grammar. you should try to see through to the very valid underlying message, which is that if you pay peanuts you get monkeys.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090829/local/they-took-all-i-had-hold-up-victim

Surely, he didn’t mean Hippocrates, did he?

Yes, could have imagined. But as far as I know the Italian “singolo” is not univocal with the English “single”. It is closer to “singular” or “undivided” or “individual”. And, in any case, it sounds like a mouthful even in English.