Bah. I too didn’t choose to learn Maltese, and it’s just taking up part of my brain that could be used for a more useful language.

Maybe ‘constantly’ was a bit of an exaggeration. That is why there are signs in every bus warning passengers about assaults on bus drivers and bus drivers are now protected by a glass screen.

H.P. Baxxter the same could be said about English. English has been forced onto the world by default.

What about the sound of Dutch, it sounds like choking cows!

I am proud of my native Maltese language, I could not chose my mother before I was born nor my mother tongue, in fact I studied Arabic to appreciate its beauty even more, an NO I am not Mitoffjan, Mittelkless or a PL creep!

Demeaning? The language demeans itself. It’s nothing but a pidgin dialect, a Creole patois, elevated to the status of official language. Now we’re having to deal with the consequences. Just look at the story on “uniform reorganisation”.

Just stand on any London Underground platform within easy reach of Oxford Street (Primark obviously) and hear them screaming away in our beloved mother tongue with alla, madonna, g***x, l**a freely interspersed with every other word and then you will feel comforted that only compatriots can understand them.

Hear Maltese abroad and you will have to run a mile in the opposite direction to avoid them.

Demeaning of the Maltese language? Why, it’s as expressive as a language can get, as these “official” Maltese idioms will show you.

Toni jahra fejn ixommu
Wiccu u sormu xorta
Qisek xidja f’sorm il-patri
Il-qahba mill-jkolla ttik
Thallat il-hass mall-bass

Need I go on?

English is not the only language in the world besides Maltese, though it is the mother tongue of many.

Comparisons are odious but any way, I think French is a very nice soft-sounding language, with that hint of harmonious vocals.

Do you have to be so demeaning towards the Maltese language?

You should be proud of your mother tongue. I don’t find English much better sounding than Maltese!