Comments on: One for the Mlatasatr crowd https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/04/one-for-the-mlatasatr-crowd/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:06:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Isard du Pont https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/04/one-for-the-mlatasatr-crowd/#comment-51263 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:06:46 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=6668#comment-51263 In reply to JoeM.

If anything, misspelled. Misspelt would be the adjective rather than the verb.

]]> By: JoeM https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/04/one-for-the-mlatasatr-crowd/#comment-51262 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:54:48 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=6668#comment-51262 In reply to Rita Camilleri.

Rita

You’ve got it all wrong.

In all probability the text read “Ġanni libes il-buz”. “Buz” is the pair of boots, whilst one boot is “buza” and many pairs of boots are “bwiez” or “buzijiet”.

]]> By: JoeM https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/04/one-for-the-mlatasatr-crowd/#comment-51261 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:50:22 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=6668#comment-51261 In reply to freefalling.

misspelt

]]> By: Il-Cop https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/04/one-for-the-mlatasatr-crowd/#comment-51260 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:04:05 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=6668#comment-51260 In reply to il-Ginger.

@ il-Ginger
And my 12 points go to, hold on, hold on, here it comes, FEMINEM. Oh my God I’m getting too old for this stuff but thanks anyway ginger.

]]> By: bookworm https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/04/one-for-the-mlatasatr-crowd/#comment-51259 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:40:32 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=6668#comment-51259 In reply to Anthony Briffa.

I used to live in Floriana, and even as a child I used to note the grammatical mistakes of the club’s slogans. What can I say, other than the boards used to make my day!

]]> By: Dem-ON https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/04/one-for-the-mlatasatr-crowd/#comment-51258 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:55:36 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=6668#comment-51258 A sweet poem from Trevor Zahra, which I never read. Thanks, Daphne.

]]> By: Anthony Briffa https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/04/one-for-the-mlatasatr-crowd/#comment-51257 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:18:51 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=6668#comment-51257 At the Labour Party club in Floriana they have put up a board announcing that “Il-Fuwil rega’ ghola”.

]]> By: Rita Camilleri https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/04/one-for-the-mlatasatr-crowd/#comment-51256 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:01:56 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=6668#comment-51256 @ g – the same happened to me when I was helping my then 8 year son to read in Maltese – “Gianni libes il-buts. Yes you were meant to read it as “boots”, but it took me a good 5 minutes to understand as I read it as the plural of ‘but’.

]]> By: g https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/04/one-for-the-mlatasatr-crowd/#comment-51255 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:57:08 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=6668#comment-51255 Great – a good laugh, except that it is too close to the truth.

I tried to read my son’s homework notes: “Malti hendawt Pg 3” and gave him a telling off for incorrect spelling, until I realised that he had copied what the teacher had written on the white-board.

And we pay good money for his education.

]]> By: il-Ginger https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/04/one-for-the-mlatasatr-crowd/#comment-51254 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:49:53 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=6668#comment-51254 http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100416/local/foreign-guests-at-labour-song-contest

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