Very adroitly said, DJ!

You know the scene inside out.

Oh yes, DJ! Very well said! Their own set of elves.

The biggest elf – but still an elf – is the one who would believe only if he touches! Peace be unto him!

The really dangerous words in Maltese are the verbs that end in ‘uli’. ULI Words can get you into heaps of trouble. Add an ULI to any verb and you’re in the hot water.

Godfrey Grima should keep quiet on the subject of corruption. His brother was a minister in the Labour government pre-1987.

@ SPTT, you wrote:

“[OV] is a dedicated lecturer and his knowledge and love of the language undisputed by all those who know him or have had the pleasure to attend any of his lectures.”

Balderdash. I have attended a number of his lectures and find him to be crass and much dedicated to the initiation of elves into the cult of the New Akkademja.

I dispute his chivalric servitude to the great cause of the Maltese language.

@ Nostradamus: Thank you for bringing this up. University lecturing staff are another category of Maltese society unfortunately plagued by such parasites and hangers-on that make their way up the ladder by enslaving themselves to a master and by playing power games.

I have first-hand experience of this as my first degree was in Maltese. They had (and most probably still have) quite a way of separating the wheat from the chaff in their own blinkered way. Their only intent is to groom their own set of elves. I am proud to say that I refused to be one and had therefore to seek greener and happier pastures.

Daph, skills and intellectual property weren’t protected before. That’s why guilds were created and that’s why the states that had a strong merchant class prospered: the turds controlling the state couldn’t control the merchant’s source of wealth as that relied on a wed of trust and dangerous shipping lanes spanning the globe.

That resulted in a distinct lack of innovation because the local lord would appropriate himself of the fruits of your labour even if he had to stake you on trumped charges.

Il marchese del grillo says it best…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ_ewZ7JRmg

France gets 80% of its electricity needs from nuclear. they had taken a decision long ago to be independent of other countries.

It’s ironic that the Italians who have overwhelmingly voted nuclear out for so long ending up buying their electricity from the french across the border. They could have had cheaper electricity for a lot longer.

When the cost gets right, we will be getting a nuclear plant … or two. We need lots of cheap energy to build a bigger economy. We how do you think electric cars and an underground system will be powered?

kev, the Bildeberg conspiracists will fry your brains with ghost waves. Better put on that tinfoil hat before it’s too late…

kev, what’s your problem? The world is moving towards big economic blocks. In 50 years’ time we’ll be bobbing in the big waves created by the big economies: the US, China and India.

Do you expect the EU should not be prepared for the jostling for survival?

China is buying all the African states for their resources, the US already has a lot of countries in its portfolio of client states.

Do you want European states to become clients of one of these powers?

Give me a break…