Prize comment: MHEMX BZONN BLATE BIEX TQAXAR SUF ISH IQAXREK MINTOFF
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September 22, 2010 at 8:21pm
Hello, my name is Dom Mintoff and I've come to tackle Mario Vella
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Submitted on 2010/09/22 at 7:26pm
DAPHANIE KIEKU IL PERIT JIFLAH U QED TOFENDIH BI L HDURA MHEMX BZONN BLATE BIEX TQAXAR SUF KOLLU TA XADINI ISH IQAXREK HU KEMM INT HADRA JA SAHHARA TAL BIDNIJA VIVA MINTOFF
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I am thinking about writing to the Oxford Press to update the next dictionary with some new words – they are as follows
Blate – sumtink jo uze to tajk off de her
Ridens – ez in goot ridens
Green – Hdura (woqeva dat meens)#
Witch – Wich ( w ajma)
Daphne – deffnee
Legend – Mintoff (nah, not really)
U ejja come on guys be original now. You are starting to sound like a bunch of broken records. Dejjem l-istess kliem!
Paul Borg is one of the more excitable of the Mintoff-admirers but what I really don’t know is why he writes “ish”. I could understand it if he wrote “ax” like the rest of the chicken flock, but “ish”?
So that is what he meant!
Kept seeing this “ish” in other comments too and I’d thought it was an acronym for something.
DAPHANIE GHANDEK XI TQAXAR SENTEJN OHRA GHANDKOM FIL GVERN U BLATES ISIBHOM ORHOS
Dear Paul, it’s ‘BLADES’, not blates.
Oh God.. too, too funny. He’s really just so ridiculous I’m starting to think that he’s just a bad parody of your ‘iss hej’ class.
In this case, it will be the “ish hej” class.
Li Mintoff kien iqaxxar lil min jista’ haj meta kien fil-gvern. Ma kienx hemm bzonn ta’ “Paul Borg” biex inkunu nafuh.
Oh, so that is what ‘ish’ means. I thought it was a ‘twich’ he might have.
That “ish” must be some sort of fetish.
Thanks for the entertainment, Daphne! After a stressful day I needed a laugh and a cry over all those spelling mistakes. It makes me wonder why I bother to teach Maltese (if you call THAT Maltese) to my students.
And to think it’s an official EU language! I wonder how many people actually know how to speak and write Maltese properly… I mean it might be a bit difficult but I think most of the problem is utter laziness!
Please tell me you’re trolling us Daphne.
A facebook search reveals it is used by a Sandra Borg, who is completely inactive.
Google only gives your website as results.
Please, don’t let me lose hope. Just tell me it’s all an elaborate joke
I would love to laugh but unfortunately, the only thing I can do after reading all these comments is cry and mourn the Maltese language. Wasn’t illiteracy meant to have been eradicated?
Simply unbelievable!
Basta jiftahru li Maltin u jridu jitkellmu bil-Malti. Ahjar imorru jitghallmu jiktbu u jaqraw l-ewwel u b’hekk jiehdu xi haga mis-sistema edukattiva li “ivvinta” il-tant mahbub perit salvatur ta’ Malta
Who’s to blame for the horrid state of literacy in Malta, now I wonder? Tricky…… got it, it’s Sant by halfing the University stipends. He’s guilty as sin, that one.
[Daphne – The parents, Lejborist. And that’s obvious. Parents are make or break when it comes to these things. I went to a hopeless school – totally Dickensian. It didn’t stop me.]
Parents do have their fair share of responsibility surely, that’s a given. But I was always taught that in any organisational hierarchy it is the people at the helm who are ultimately responsible.
[Daphne – The ‘I was only following orders’ mentality, you mean? Lovely.]
That’s why they are paid more than the people at the bottom. Imagine for a moment that you were a shareholder of a poorly performing company in which you invest a minimum 2/12 of your monthly income every year (other taxes aside, that is how much an average person pays in taxes every year).
Who would you be pissed off the most at? If every tax payer shared your line of thought, the life of a minister would be as easy as pie.
[Daphne – You can’t compare a company to life, in which every individual is responsible for his or her actions after the age of 18, and even before that – otherwise people under 18 wouldn’t be prosecuted.]
Daphne, you went to a Dickensian school, but some of those commenting here give the impression that they went to a school for dicks.
Paul Borg should be the main speaker at the Labour history conference and perhaps the Labour Party would oblige and transmit the session live. Move over, Mario Vella – the blates are coming.
Jekk int hero ggibom l-comments tieghi bestjaaaaaaaa – kollox qed nahdem, daqt jasal l mument li niehu l-ahhar pass u nitfawk …..haahahahahahah sahahar psikopatika!
Keith, is that a threat?
Attent, Rover, ghax Paul Borg jasal biex jibghatek tiehdu f’ish immek.
Ghax insejt. Forsi jiftah xi bank tas-Smart Cells.
Nahseb dan il-kliem diehel jew ahjar dahal minhabba l-SMS.
Il-kunjom Mintoff hawn min jghid li gej min ‘mintuf’: ‘plucked from the feathers.’
A number of children leave school practically illiterate. A short time ago it would be: they are illiterate so subject closed.
However, nowadays they want to send text messages on their mobile phones and use Facebook and they haven’t let the fact that they are almost illiterate stand in their way.
The next step was the timesofmalta.com comments board. They read the headings of articles (no chance of them reading the whole article) and listen to their friends talking and then feel confident enough to comment there.
It’s a good thing you have the website line on your blog Daphne as it might deter many of them commenting here
what’s “ish”?
[Daphne – Ghax]
Did anyone manage to figure out what ‘ISH’ means? This made-up word appears in every comment that he posts.
[Daphne – Ghax. It makes a change from the usual elf AX]
Hermetic prose at its best.
@Daphne
So what’s the ministry of education’s role in all this? What are the yard sticks by which you determine the success of an education ministry?
Mine are, primarily, statistical figures about literacy and exam passes across a said period of time.
I seriously hope you did not mean that all accountability should be put on the shoulders of parents and adults in general.
[Daphne – Yes, I did mean precisely that. The fact is that schools can do nothing in the face of a home environment that is not congenial to a child’s intellectual development. The children who do succeed in developing intellectually despite a negative environment at home are exceptional. They either have exceptional determination or an exceptional level of intelligence, and generally, they have both. The problem is that they are not the ones who need help because they are perfectly capable of helping themselves. Schools are not – or at least, should not be – about studying. I never studied and I don’t recall any of my sons studying while at school, either. We all did well. Education is about broadening the mind and awakening a child’s curiosity – then once the mind is open, learning is easy. How can teachers break down the mental defences put up by a child whose mind has been closed by his upbringing? Or fight against the prejudices and the ignorance of his parents without telling him, in so many words, that his parents are ignorant and prejudiced? Children at independent schools do very well in examinations and in life not because independent schools are necessarily better than others, but because the children who go there have parents who prioritise education and make financial sacrifices to pay large amounts for it. They also tend to live in homes where there is proper conversation, where events are discussed, where real newspapers are read, and where there is a bit of an international perspective.]
And the PN government emerges unscathed again under the judgement of Caruana Galizia. Mind you, when it comes to education, there is no adage that holds truer than charity begins at home, but that doesn’t mean that the government shouldn’t do its utmost to level the playing field or to prevent students from jumping through unnecessary hoops. What’s more, you shouldn’t base your opinion on a subject matter solely on your own experiences or of those around you. What worked for you doesn’t necessarily work for others, given the different contexts each one of us is faced with. This goes well beyond intelligence and/or determination.
[Daphne – How can you blame the government when children come out of the same school with completely different results? The school is the common factor. It is the HOME which is the differentiating factor here. I would have been exactly the same had I gone to a different school, because I am the product of my parents, my personality and my genetic make-up – certainly not of my school. The same can be said for all of us. We are the product of our school only if we board from the age of seven, returning home at Christmas, Easter and in the summer – and even then, the home and parents have a massive influence. I went to school in the 1970s and early 1980s. Does that make me a product of the Labour government’s educational policies? If anything, it makes me a victim of them because I couldn’t get a university education, but it sure as hell wasn’t Agatha Barbara who taught me what I know.]
The absence of punctuation does not betray ignorance of grammar, to my mind. These posters remind me of the closing chapter in James Joyce’s “Ulysses” when Molly cannot sleep and spends her time musing. They are probably fans of Joyce and trying to imitate his style…
Maybe someone has already brought up the (tongue in cheek) analogy with Joyce and his brilliant but boring novel, in which case I present my apologies…
[Daphne – No, no one has. And yes, it’s called ‘stream of consciousness’.]