@ Twanny. Vera thawwad il-hass mal-bass. Did I say that all state property occupied by the PL should be taken back? What I said is that this property was neglected and almost ruined and instead of restoring it or returning it to its rightful owner the PL wants another property. Do you see the difference? If not I give up!

I don’t have time to write a thesis about the nuances of idiomatic phrases and how they do not have to be literally the same to have the same connotations in different languages.

[Daphne – I think I know the nuances of English swear-words a good deal better than you do, Twanny. English is not my second language as it is yours.]

In any case it is irrelevant. We are not discussing precise meanings here, just the fact that some people see nothing wrong in using a phrase in one language but not the same phrase (let us say a similar phrase, to avoid argument) in another language.

[Daphne – Those people you mention, Twanny, are the Mittilkless your leader is so keen to attract. So I wouldn’t be mean to them if I were you. I, on the other hand, am perfectly at home telling somebody ‘mur inhexa’. I believe there might have been an unfortunate policeman who discovered that the other day, but I can’t remember for certain as there was a great deal of confusion at the time and I might actually have been referring to the magistrate who dispatched him, and for whom that sort of thing tends to be a favourite pastime.]

[Daphne -I imagine that you are completely unaware that those who swear most in, for example, Britain are at the two extreme ends of the social scale, while everyone else is horrified at being thought vulgar and so doesn’t. The difference in meaning is not slight but complete. Telling someone to fuck off is not an instruction to go and get laid, just as telling someone to sod off is not an instruction to go and get himself buggered. English is very specific in this respect. If you wish to tell someone to ‘mur inhexa’, the correct expression to use is ‘Get fucked’ and not ‘fuck off’. ‘Fuck off’ is a contraction of ‘get the fuck off’, fuck here being used in the same way as it is in ‘what the fuck’. This in turn would translate as ‘X’iz-z*bb’, which – even you would understand – has nothing actually to do with the male reproductive organ, it being used here only for emphatic reasons.]

And I’m afraid you are wrong about the cultural content of “mur inħexa” in Maltese. It is used as a “cuss word” exactly as, and with the same meaning, as “fuck off”. You probably do not frequent people who have that register and vocabulary.

[Daphne – ‘Mur inhexa’ means exactly what it says, Twanny: go and get fucked. This does not mean that the person who says it actually expects the other person to find a hot date right that minute. ‘You probably do not frequent people who have that register and vocabulary’. Exactly how do you think ‘people like me’ live, Twanny – like those with pretensions to the mittilkless?]

In this context, I take that as a compliment.

Oh my god, Twanny is a pixxikalda.

When is the Hon J Azzopardi going to give the imposing Gov. building in the best part of Paola Square – occupied by the PN as a club – back to “the people”?

PS: I thought it was only permitted to refer to “the peeple” on this blog. Or is that only when it refers to the Piano Project?

The same kind of people who think it is cool to say “fuck off” but would rather cut their tongue out than say “mur inħexa”.

[Daphne – I’d better set you straight on this, Twanny, before you end up getting yourself into a spot of trouble. ‘Mur inhexa’ translates as ‘get fucked’ and not as ‘fuck off’. There is no translation for ‘fuck off’ because ‘fuck’ in this context is used as a ‘cuss word’, like bloody and damn – as in ‘what the fuck’, abbreviated by kids to WTF.]

I thought that quoting Wiki and/or similar sites was “infra dig”.

Or is it only when I do it?

…not only neglect but they were going to make a huge profit out of it when they had entered into a konvenju with a now bankrupt food chain supermarket. Are the MLP going to reinstate the building to the glory it was including the original timber roof or are they offering it to the government so as to have a “roofless” theatre ready for use instead of the Valletta old theatre. Hon J Azzopardi – keep pressing what your predecessors failed to do and get the property back without giving the Marsa property since all conditions have been broken by none other than the PL itself which had drawn up the contract when in government. Give the Australia Hall back to the people.