So it’s time to move forward and adopt a neutral non-national language, taught universally in schools worldwide,in all nations. As a native English speaker, I would prefer Esperanto

Your readers may be interested in the following video at http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_YHALnLV9XU Professor Piron was a translator with the United Nations in Geneva.

A glimpse of Esperanto can be seen at http://www.lernu.net

Daphne – sorry if this seems pedantic, but in Canadian ice hockey the goalkeeper is called the goalie.

Din bhal ta’ “an apartment on the Sliema promenade”. Min hu minn hemmhekk jghid “a flat on the front”.

And the Maltese word for goal-keeper is … gowler!

Bil-Malti “Hallina” tfisser “leave us”, u “halliena” tfisser “he left us” ( bil-H rasha maqtugha ma’ ghandniex xi nghidu.)

Troy, perhaps you’d like me to defend or attack Maltastar, but I will henceforth be treading carefully on this blog, especially since I’ve detected a strange syndrome that does not occur elsewhere.

Instead, I’ll take the opportunity to correct my earlier comments concerning Malta Week in Brussels and give credit where credit is due. So I congratulate Sajmint Buzuttin, X’jikluna l-Bajd and Xandru’s daddy for teaming up to utilise the EP funds available to MEPs for such events.

I hear the PN is ever so grateful for the help it got from these three PN stalwarts since it concerns more than just Malta Week and some spare change…

All in all, not bad for a purported red-blue team of EU apparatchiks bent on praising EU governance whenever they can.

Correct!

timesofmalta.com have had some strange writing recently – like when they wrote something along the lines of “a man had a fight with two Arabs” and after I sent them a comment (which wasn’t published) spelling out what it implied, they changed the entire thing.

The wife of the man said to the husband of the woman………….

P.S. I think goaler or goalie is a short version of the word goal-keeper.

[Daphne – It’s goalie in English, goaler in Manglish. I think the only sport where the goalkeeper is called a goaler is Canadian ice hockey. That’s because, in English word-formation, the goaler would be the person who ‘makes’ the goal and not the one who stops it being made.]

Hey, you’re being too hard on the boys and girls at Maltastar! They also used the idiom ‘split hairs’ in that article.