Maltastar: 'rebel fighters sweep with great ease' (those must be fantastic brooms they've got)
A rebel fighter broom which sweeps with great ease
The latest from Maltastar:
“Spokesman Ibrahim Moussa is thought to have went into hiding after delivering his last press conference on Sunday night while rebel fighters were sweeping with great ease in the capital city.”
Thank you, Malteser, for sending this in.
And just to demonstrate that we’re not just having a laugh, but that this is constructive criticism, let’s help them along.
Listen up, Maltastar.
HE GOES
HE WENT
HE HAS GONE (Ibrahim Moussa is thought to have GONE)
HE HAD GONE
HE WILL GO
Sweeping with great ease INTO the capital city (‘sweeping with great ease in the capital city’ means that you’re right there in the city with your broom and sweeping easily away)
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http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110823/local/pbs-chairman-reinstated.381555
Will Julia Farrugia resign ?
A comment on The Times Online:
Alfred Mangion
Today, 17:30
Prosit Joseph – truth always prevails. And what a rapping the Editor got!!! Hopefully some so-called journalists will finally learn some ethics. Prosit again Joe and keep it up!!!!
Keeping it up seems to be quite a popular pastime recently.
They should invest in a few copies of this:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/New-First-Aid-English/dp/0340882875
OMG, is this still in print ? I used it some decades ago .
First Aid? They need major brain surgery.
Make their life easier. Agenda in Republic Street still sell it.
The level of literacy of primary school English as a second language student. How in god’s name can this be uploaded with such appalling basic mistakes?
Have these people no pride in their work?
Shame on them.
I suspect these articles are taken from elsewhere and ‘juggled about’ so as not to appear word for word. The result is a disgrace.
Welcome to the ‘u mhux xorta?’ mentality.
English as a second language isn’t the problem over at Maltastar. As usual, the problem is the incompetence and low standards (same difference, in Maltastar’s case) that the Labour Party has long established as its brand.
Competent students of English as a second language are aware of their shortcomings, Maltastar being the spectacularly singular exception.
I remember a quote from my 1970 primary school reader:
He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he’s a fool: shun him.
Mur ġib ‘il tal-Maltralats jgħawġu lsienhom (u moħħhom) madwarha dik eh.
If I were Dear Joseph, I would be cringing with embarrassment about Maltastar.
Yet he does not even bother to take any corrective action. This is, in my view, a foretaste of what a Joseph / Lil Din government will be like – u iva mhux xorta.
Mintoff’s government was one fixated on the second-hand, and Joseph’s will be based on amateurism .
If you were Dear Joseph you would not be embarrassed in the least.
You would be incapable of seeing the reason for embarrassment.
Blissful ignorance.
Actually, I just realised that “Not Tonight” used the same term “u mhux xorta” . I assure you it’s not plagerism :)
Oh that’s just a catch-phrase I hear several times a day at work from students and, more worrying still, from some of their educators. It never ceases to make my blood boil.
Sorry, ‘more worryingly still’, ….’u mhux xorta?’
I have severe dyslexia and yet I knew the grammar was wrong.
Chavs:0
Me: 1 point
I feel so liberal I could become Labour.
They sweep and we weep.
La l-Labour Party intrigaw li jkollhom gazzetta bl-Ingliz misshom jimpjegaw nies professjonali fil-lingwa u mhux ser jibqaw jillappazzaw u jitqammlu bhalma kien jaghmel Mintoff.
Sorry bil-haqq, Michelle gradwata fl-Ingliz. Possibbli ma taghtix daqqa t’id ghall-partit taghha?
More gems: “a head depicting the Gaddafi was raised by the rebels”
“Man alledgedly hit by speed boat”
“Whether RCC, Eddie’s former right hand man is here in Malta for the August siesta, or whether he is here to try and refloat a sinking ship is as yet unclear and uncertain, What is certain though is that the ship is sinking, leadership is lacking and Malta’s competitiveness is suffering as a result.”
Reading Mlatrasas is like trying to decipher a four-year old’s first attempts at stringing words together into sentences. Aħjar jikinsu dik il-mandra ta’ ‘ġurnalisti’ l’għandhom.
Why don’t they just sweep themselves, with great ease, under a carpet?
Come to think of it, would they be able to sweep themselves under and not below the bloody thing?
The Real Broom Army
http://www.mediaticks.com/news/International_News/Londons_broom_Army_fights_back.html
It’s even bad coming from someone fresh out of kindergarten.
Not bad at all from someone just out of ‘reception class’. Proper grammar starts at kindergarten.