Comments on: Ingliz tal-biki u kitba tad-disperazzjoni

By: Robbie

Robbie — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 07:05:21 +0000

In reply to Hot Mama. Who the f**k does he think he is? For the love of God, don't attach such useless and worthless links - totally disgusting.

By: Blue Rabbit

Blue Rabbit — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:05:54 +0000

In reply to Scerri S. ga qaluha... ;-)

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:39:45 +0000

In reply to Hot Mama. He's obviously targeting the Central European and Slavic recruitment pool. Do you have what it takes? Do you?

By: C. Borg

C. Borg — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:48:19 +0000

In reply to chavsRus.

BBUUUURRRRNNNNN … I can’t believe he didn’t bother to check the dictionary before posting this comment.

He is right about the ż though.

[Daphne – I know he’s right about the z, but I repeat: I do not use Maltese fonts and it has nothing to do with my ability to spell, which is near perfect even if I do say so myself. I just don’t use Maltese fonts, end of story.]

By: Victor Ross

Victor Ross — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:09:03 +0000

Didn’t we lose the 12 or 20 million for the St.John’s Cathedral undergound museum thanks to Astrid and her magaphone?
Or am I missing something here?

By: chavsRus

chavsRus — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:03:21 +0000

In reply to chavsRus.

No, I read KulĦadd and listen to One Radio to get the LP’s side just as I listen to NET and read In-Nazzjon to get the PN’s side.

The pity is that the station which is supposed to give me a balanced view has been so tightly packed with PN apparatchiks that it is now infinetly more partisan than it ever was in the bad old “run rabbit run” days.

[Daphne – More fool you for still getting your news off the television in this day and age. Only old people do that – old people and the sub-literate.]

By: Joseph Micallef

Joseph Micallef — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:03:23 +0000

Listing to that crap “song” in your previous post, and to an illogical justification by a fireworks hobbyist on TVM who argued that even driving a car is lethally dangerous, I am more convinced of a theory which explains our difficulty in expressing ourselves in correct English.

The theory centres on studies of the logical left and imaginative right brain thinking and the scientific nature of languages and hence the people that speak them.

English is the quintessential of logical whilst the melodically creative Romance languages (with which our own Maltese language and thought process is heavily imbued) represents the direct opposite. Given that language is nothing but the audible expression of thought we Maltese are in a constant state of mental stress when we try to express ourselves in English whilst thinking in Maltese.

For a typical Maltese to try and think in English is as unnatural and improbable as snow to the desert unless one is predominantly exposed to the English tradition.

This obviously does not justify using a language incorrectly (at least without declaring own limitations).

By: David Buttigieg

David Buttigieg — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:01:33 +0000

Timesofmalta.com

“Fontana sets up fund for fireworks victims – Xaghra feast held”

I don’t think any amount of money will help the victims of the explosion!

By: ciccio2010

ciccio2010 — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:35:18 +0000

The article should at least have explained the meaning of the Equal and ERDF programs.

By: M. Bormann

M. Bormann — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:26:35 +0000

Another example of bad English – “cut” instead of “hung up” (the phone):

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100908/local/i-think-he-felt-something-victim-s-wife

[Daphne – He cut the line, using a pair of scissors, no doubt.]