The comints from studenti tal-Pulse continue under the Glanville Goodlip post

Published: December 7, 2011 at 12:28am

I swear to God I am not making these up. I was away from my computer all evening and came back and found scores of them, all from different IP numbers, all written by obviously young people who are, in 2011, only marginally more literate than their grandparents were.

You can build new schools and furnish them with laptops, but there’s nothing you can do to make up for the shortcomings of the genes for stupidity, made worse by a gutter-class upbringing.

Sad. I would say these people are in their late teens or early 20s, but they sound like foul-mouthed 10-year-olds with a low IQ. They’re real, in a house near you, and worst of all….they have the vote.

Note the one, especially, about the ‘shit starer’. Imagine that: a new hobby.

Then there’s the one who told me that if he were to compare me to his mother, I would ‘go in a shalter’ (translation, I imagine, of ‘tidhol go qoxortok’).

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id deffien
Ara daphne alaq halqed darba al dejjem gieli harist fil mera int ax nahseb jien mhux ta bxejn jadulek il sahhara tal bidnija qalbi, bniedma bla sens bhalek Malta ma ghandiex bzonn zgur alekk go dan il pajjiz jezisti hafna bullshit meta tmur al xi job interview ax issib nies bhalek injoranti socjalment imma umbad kollom grades u x naf jien, minalijom jafu hafna ax jiktbu bl inglis umbad tismahom jitkellmu bl ingliz u qisom gejjin mil conqo wtf ma nafx x jahsbu certu MALTIN BHALEK, tahsbu li qedin l- AMERICA jew hafna bullshit go bicca pajjiz zghir, fejna il qalb tal Maltin li tant niftahru bija, U btw il Labour u in Nazzjonalisti x andom jaqsmu hawn??? u fuq comment ta xi hadd li qrajt imma ma nistax insib xi hadd kiteb li irrid ikollok certu standars u hekk gholjin u halluna bil kwiet pls allahares nofskom issifru barra bl inglizati kolla li andkom alla hares issifru barra lejn xi pajjiz bhal America u tiddecidu li tghixu hemm ax taf kemm iccemplu tigru il Mummy ax il Maltin imdorrijin b certu mentalita injoranta, li al naqra pajjiz taddi imma al barra jiklukom hajjin belive me, GROW UP PLS U STOP BEIGN Wusses.. U btw daphne sibu u ajdlu f wiccu lil dan il bniedem forsi jamillek bad lip lol

Marley
In my opinion, Dear Daphne, you are the only trash in this sinario.
I have never in my life heard such a ridiculous surname as Galizia, so if I were you I would think twice before calling anyone else, as you only make yourself look very unprofessional

L
Galizia, in my opinion you are using this once-in-a-blue-moon occurrence to get somewhere else in politics. This has nothing to do with politics, yet you are mentioning it in every single comment which is quite immature

M.G
shame on you for judging people! this is disgusting , you should be ashamed of yourself…witch

karl
eee bdw daphne, inti kunjomok jurik minn fejn giek!!! GALIzia – mill-gali, minn fejn jinzel id-drenagg u l-ilma mahmug

marco vella
Daphne you are such a shit starer,your life must be a misrable one like the grinch no wonder they call you is sahhara tla bidnija as not only you look like a witch but also act like one.
Why dont you tell us a bit about your family for once rather then picking on every one else!

Ylly
I am impressed. Well done. Youve managed to make your ass jealous of your mouth because of all the shit thats coming out :)
Brava keep it up!

Karl
inti f’hix gradwajt daphne mela? mhux xi communications tghid???
Ma tantx ghandhom biex jifirhu bik il-gurnalisti jekk inti meqjusa bhala gurnalista wara kollox!!

ix-xewka
Maybe you’re not ugly as a duck but i’m sure that at some point in time you’ve done a very long time out there exploring space till the time you turned 47. Mentioning that you said that you barely find students like these in those studying medicine, I think that you need to get more up-to-date with what happens behind the scenes when concerning students studying medicine. Got the point space girl?

danny
be sure that if I compare you to my mother you would go in a shalter and never get out again

R. Cassar
Blog fqir, bla argument pero m’hemmx x’nistenna iktar mis-sahhara tal-Bidnija. S’hemm taf. U ma nafx xi trid tghid biha meta fuq Glanville tghid “who looks like this”. Ma nimmaginax li hi persuna li tghati hafna l-aspett estetiku, ghax jekk tghati, ghandi mistoqsijiet kbar kif jirnexxilha tghix biha nfisha.

Luca Spiteri
Sry ta, int x’jidhollok u x’johroglok xi ssemih ommu persuna ghid ? Lil Glanville nafhu sew u int qed tiggudikah fuq azzjoni wahda hazina li ghamel ? Min tahseb li int biex tiggudika ? Perfetta Int ?

lulu
ma nfiqux pero nixtieq insaqsi lill-daphne jekk hiex gejja minn xi familja nobbli ghax kliemha il-hin kollu ssemmiu l-familji ta”lower class’ din ma nistax nifhimha x’tahseb li int daphne ruhi?

Maria F
Daphne you should get a life and if you are not successful at that just let people get on with theirs peacefully! You really have nothing to do given that you had the time to write a blog based on a name! And may I ask what graduate you are? Because whatever you are you do not sound professional at all!

Simple statistics are enough to show that in such incidents the highest probability is that the person involved will be from FEMA or the Faculty of Laws since these are the most populated courses in UOM. And if I may add, comments like that on Joseph Muscat and Aaron Farrugia are very childish. I am PN follower and do not agree with most of Muscat’s statements. However, I do not think that this has to due with his line of studies! After all even the PN candidature also includes lawyers or accountants/auditors.

xejn xejn xejn
isma gbin tridx talaq halqek u ma tparlax ohra fil vojt.. ghal informazzjoni tijak jina b comm student u qlajt fwidi bix amilt daw l 4 snin.. u jekk ridt nidhol avukat stajt ukoll , ax kelli bizzejed requirements. imma jina bcomm ridt ax nixtiq il quddim nahdem il bank… nis TRASH huma int u mux goodlip, ax hadd mandu dritt jitkellem bdan il mod fuq in nis..u sew amel , sinjal li tal gatz bix amila..zgur ma tajilux al xejn.. u ha najdlek hassra li ma tahix lilek Daphne u fractured admek kollu….jaqqqqq kemm int kisha

kurt borg
Jahasra mintomx tindunaw li dil wirdiena toqod tikteb artikli kontroversjali biex tispicca fuq l-ahbarijiet… iktar Jeffrey pullicino u tal PL joqodu jaghtu kasa… u l-erba ti qtates li joqodu jifirhu ma kull artiklu li tikteb..and btw DAFNI DUCK DID YOU EVER LOOK IN A MIRROR? stop making fun of other cause you’re uglier than a duck
nista nara pic tijak meta kellek 20 pls… bil burka jekk jista jkun ghax adni niekol…rt borg




59 Comments Comment

  1. BC says:

    And what makes you so sure they are comments from studenti tal- Pulse…..seriously you think that only Pulse students criticized you on this matter or that sdm/nationalist supporters wish they have 100 more like you…the scene isn’t like that ta….tipo illum smajt kors shih bcom joffendik li btw hafna minnhom hardcore SDM….

    [Daphne – Hardcore SDM? Is there a fetish magazine for that?]

    • Yanika says:

      Frankly Daphne, to me it seems like you offended a large group of people, and despite their political preferences, they united in defense of one of their own. Goodlip must have very good friends, and he must be one popular guy!

      [Daphne – What political differences? They’re all Labour, Pulse and FZL elves. And don’t deduce that they’re his friends. They are, rather, my enemies, and were so to begin with.]

  2. Antoniette says:

    I can hardly understand anything these idiots write. How in the world do they communicate with each other and those around them?

    [Daphne – It’s a patois, Antoinette, which means that they can communicate perfectly well with others who speak it, but can’t talk to anyone else.]

    • Joe Micallef says:

      Thank goodness, in the case of these morons, patois is one route to emargination and extinction.

      • H.P. Baxxter says:

        If only! It’s a sure route to recruitment, a solid career, salary progression, power, influence, contacts, sexual success, fecundity and 2.4 children. Alas, and so the darkness spreads, what.

      • John H says:

        Or perhaps we’re the ones speaking patios, and their language will take over. There’s a novel by Pierre Boulle about all this.

  3. Pisces says:

    I am amazed and shocked that not even one of them writes good English or Maltese for that matter.

    I cannot believe that these students are at the university!

    How they are able to pass their exams is beyond me.

    Who corrects their exams papers and gives them a pass? I would put their exam papers into a shredder, until they learn to write proper English and Maltese or send them back to primary school. What a sorry state we are in with such students, very bright future indeed!

  4. Tom says:

    I tried but stopped at ‘sinario’

  5. Charles says:

    What I gathered from the above comments

    1) “U btw daphne sibu u ajdlu f wiccu lil dan il bniedem forsi jamillek bad lip lol” – This person has unconciously shown us that violent behaviour is Glanville’s normal reaction.

    2) “GALIzia – mill-gali, minn fejn jinzel id-drenagg u l-ilma mahmug” – I am truly surprised they managed to extrapolate gulley from Gali. But then again we all know it is difficult not to catch even the slightest whiff of your own home.

  6. Kenneth Cassar says:

    “ghal informazzjoni tijak jina b comm student u qlajt fwidi bix amilt daw l 4 snin..”

    I’m not surprised.

  7. A. Charles says:

    When these children (for that is the word for such a horde) fail their exams they will blame:
    their teachers
    their school
    the system
    the corrupt examiners
    the books
    the examination hall
    the omens
    and maybe DCG.

  8. anthony says:

    I have a niggling suspicion that the people sending in these atrocious comments are the brighter ones. I mean they are young people who have sufficient self confidence to write English and Maltese.

    It seems they are the ones who got through their Os and As and possibly made it to uni.

    They are the elite. The 20%.

    When I think of the remaining 80% I despair.

  9. Mattie says:

    Sub-culture ! U iktar jikkwalifikaw bhalha sub-culture meta jaqghu daqshekk fil-personal.

    Lanqas jafu jargumentaw biex isibu r-ragun. Jigifieri lanqas biss jafu jahsbu.

    You can clothe them, feed them, give them free schooling, pay them to study, send them to do the Erasmus course, help them qualify.

    Basically you can do everything; but once again, you may get the man out of the jungle, but never the jungle out of the man. It is exactly how they were born, how they were brought up which equates to how they are – people who were never taught how to behave.

  10. Anthony Briffa says:

    Have these commenters ever been to school?

    They can write neither English nor in Maltese.

    Will this lot be tomorrow’s professionals and politicians? Is this the product of our tertiary education?

    Is this the way to be called modern and progressive? God save Malta and our future generations if the answer to my questions is yes.

  11. Gorenye says:

    lil XEJN XEJN XEJN nghidlu: sew ghamel dan il-guvni?

    Hekk sirna nirragunaw?

  12. Gorenye says:

    Kurt Borg… possibbli qatt ma rajt wicc sabieh biex tigi tghid li wicc Daphne huwa ikrah? Mela mill-liema hama ta’ drenagg huma maghmula ghajnejk?

  13. Antoine Vella says:

    One million euros a day spent on education and this is the result. And these are not the drop-outs, mind you, they’re university students, God help us.

  14. Mariac says:

    My English is far away from perfect so I cannot comment on that but what shocks me most is all the hatred coming from 20 yrs old.

  15. ciccio2011 says:

    These must be the best of the Moviment tal-Progressivi u Moderati. They are the type who join IDEAT and The Modernisers.

    The type who join il-FZL. The type who join PULSE to inflict a “disfatta fuq tal-SSSS Diiii HEMMM.”

    They are “Iz-zaghzagh wara Joseph,” “Generazzjoni Rebbieha,” “Pajjiz li Jixraq lil-Uliedna,” “l-Aqwa fl-Ewropa” and “Pajjiz li jixraqlu ahjar.”

    They are “Ghaqal fit-tmexxija.”

    The roots of the problem lie in the leadership. It is good leadership that sets the example.

    Joseph Muscat has no moral leadership, partly because he threw it away when he brought back into the fold the dinosours from Mintoff’s violent era, and partly because the party delegates gave him two rough and arrogant deputies.

    Abjetti.

  16. Jozef says:

    What’s weird is how they all identify with Goodlip and his behaviour.

    To think they should be freethinking university students, not playground louts.

    If these are the leaders of tomorrow, we’re screwed.

    One word of advice to all of them, companies use Facebook and public social networks to verify this form of mental poverty in potential employees, so as to discard them. It’s one of the forms of income for Facebook; the other is statistical analysis of the Like function for marketing purposes.

    The one who said he wants to work in a bank had better think twice about his vocation for supporting lost causes.

  17. aston says:

    Daphne, I confess to having been sceptical of your take on B. Comm students. I should have known better – these posts prove your point beyond reasonable doubt.

  18. Farrugia says:

    I suppose that with this level of erudition these students can start a debating society, – you know like the ones at Oxford.

    Their comments are a shocking reminder of the abysmal level that tertiary education has plunged to in Malta. Perhaps the education system needs to look in the mirror and see the grotesque staring back at it.

    What I find disturbing is that the sons and daughters from families who gave them a proper upbringing based on politeness, articulated discussion and mainstream European culture cannot compete with this vast horde of Neanderthals, so in the end they have to emulate them (patois and everything). That’s the tragedy of this country.

    By the way, it would be wrong to presume that this subculture only exists in Labour families. It is far more widespread. To blame are the politicians meddling in the education system for their political ends and benefits. Just look at all the political ‘academic’ appointees at the University.

  19. Karl says:

    What worries me (horrifies me, even) is that some these people are probably university students, “working hard” to become our future journalists (with ONE and Torca, needless to say), lawyers, doctors, economists and politicians.

    Xejn xejn xejn, which probably refers to his IQ score, even mentions that he’s a B.Comm student.

    How is it possible that our university is producing people which such a level of illiteracy? What went wrong?

    [Daphne – It’s not the university which produces them, but their parents. Schools can do nothing to undo the damage done by parents unless they are given full control over their pupils with no input or interference by parents. This is what the school I went to was like. It might have been a fee-paying convent school, but there were all sorts there. To this day, I can tell a St Dorothy’s ‘girl’ from the old days – whatever the home background – by the spelling, grammar and punctuation. Even in our 40s, it is as though we still have a teacher breathing fire at us for a badly spelled word or a full-stop in the wrong place. People like these students and other young people commenting here have started out with the maximum disadvantage possible – poor parents (and I don’t mean financially), which is actually worse in development terms than having no parents at all or just one parent. They grow up in homes where total ignorance and vengeful thinking are the order of the day, and they manifest all the values and attitudes of very primitive southern Mediterranean village life: defending family honour, mother as virgin queen of the home and hearth, machismo, women should be seen and not heard except when brawling with other women in defence of their honour, and so on. Look at the way they use the internet, for instance: they use Facebook as the equivalent of SMSing people they see every day or every weekend. Inizzlu l-affarijiet (it’s a verb) minn e-Bay, u daqshekk. When faced with somebody from a different culture, whether that person is also Maltese or from a different country, they are totally at a loss and can’t communicate, and not just in terms of language skills, either. They haven’t a clue what is required in conversation, or what sorts of things to ask and to talk about.]

  20. CT says:

    Kulhadd iparla kontra il blog tieghek, u kulhadd jaqrah. Jien jekk xi haga nara bla sens u fqira qas nikalkula jew naghti kasa mhux noqghod nahli il-hin prezzjuz minn tieghi biex naqra u biex nikteb fuqa.

    Xi dwejjaq ta’ nies ghandna go dal-pajjiz lanqas jacettaw gurnalizmu liberu. Kulhadd irrid iparla fil-vojt.

    Barra minn Malta dawn it-tip ta’ blogs u dan it-tip ta’ gurnalizmu hija xi haga accetata u hadd ma jghid xejn.

    Min ma joghgbux ma jaqrax u daqshekk u hallu lilna fil-liberta naghmlu li irridu.

    Keep up the good work, Daphne. Jien lili togobni hafna il-blog tieghek u ma jimportanix x’ jghid haddiehor.

  21. Paul Borg says:

    As if you gonna bother….unfortunately they have a vote:(

    I like you Daphne

  22. Ray Cassar says:

    Someone who signed R. Cassar, wrote some rubbish above.
    Not THIS R.Cassar, who folows your blog religiously from the UK.

  23. Drinu says:

    “karl
    eee bdw daphne, inti kunjomok jurik minn fejn giek!!! GALIzia – mill-gali, minn fejn jinzel id-drenagg u l-ilma mahmug.”

    This is classic; you have to give this guy credit for his creativity.

  24. Qabadni l-Bard says:

    Wow, you have so many loving fans!

    Some people just love to prove that they are exactly what they are being criticized with.

    • Mattie says:

      “Some people just love to prove that they are exactly what they are being criticized with.”

      Here, we perceive things mainly in terms of correct vs. incorrect, logical vs. illogical and what you said, is completely out of context.

  25. cat says:

    Marley, what’s so ridiculous about the surname Galizia?

  26. sangesug says:

    Jiena kieku nghaddi inkjesta lill-examiners talli dawn in-nies jiehdu id-diplomas meta qieghdin f`dan l-istat ta’ biki fir-rigward ta’ kif jiktbu.

    Dawn jaqaw hekk jiktbu il-lecturers go l-universita meta dawn l-istupidi ta’ studenti universarji ikunu qed jistudjaw.

    Dan hemm lok serju ta’ inkjesta gewwa l-universita ta’ kif nies bhal dawn qieghdin jiktbu din il-lingwa u Alla jbierek jiehdu id-diploma.

    Hdejn dawn in-nies jien Alla tal-professuri ghax almenu naf nikteb daqxejn bil-lingwa ta’ pajjizi.

  27. lulu says:

    daphne hi ghax ma tmurx fil-kcina di darba imma biex forsi ssajjar xi haga l-familtek. Alla hares il-gurnalisti kollha bhalek ta’zewg nahat taf,kieku kienu kollha bhalek malta tkun spiccat ghal-kollox ghalkemm qedin fix-xifer,hu hsieb familtek u gawdi il-familja kif tghamel kull omm ghax qed taghmillha l-hsara int stess.

    • Kenneth Cassar says:

      Here’s another one who thinks the wife’s place is in the kitchen. Hardly surprising, if you go by the quality of her writing.

      • La Redoute says:

        The kitchen’s probably where she’s writing, using her thumbs.

      • Marcus says:

        From how she writes, I wonder if she’s ever seen a kitchen. Lulu, seems to have been brough up sucking lollipops before going to school, and eating pastizzi and sawsigg rolls whilst sipping something similar to Coca Cola, on the way back home – if she’s ever been to one.

  28. Lomax says:

    I write with reference to the image accompanying this column. First of all, these comments are revolting. However, I am not surprised at all at the image.

    A few months ago (perhaps a year), I called a Local Council on behalf of an acquaintance who is illiterate. He is 65 years old and I volunteered to act as a go-between between him and the Local Council for him to be enrolled in a literacy course for adults.

    A polite voice answered the phone and when I enquired about about the course, I was given a full account of what the course would be about, venue, time , that sort of information.

    When I asked how a person is enrolled, I was given a very surprised reply: “why, he needs to apply”. “How?” I enquired. I could see my interlocutor’s eyes popping out of her head: “well, by filling in a form, of course”, I was duly told. “But this is a course for illiterate adults”, I protested, “surely there must be some other way”.

    “Well” she said “I can hardly think that this person doesn’t know how to write and read” to which I retorted “Well, I can assure you that if he knew how to read and write, he wouldn’t be interested in this course for illiterate adults” I was astonished.

    Your image brought back this hilarious albeit very sad episode.

  29. Joseph says:

    If this is the kind of response one gets from “adults” – and please note the hillarious and stupid metaphors – then yes I AGREE WITH YOU, DAPHNE.

  30. pampalun says:

    It is probably true that these comments are posted mainly by PL leaning graduates.

    However it is a mistake to think that a reasonable chunk of PN supporters are not of a similar background and upbringing.

    [Daphne – You know, I really lose patience sometimes with this kind of speculation. You don’t have to speculate, pampalun, and in fact you should not. There are surveys and polls which break down support for the political parties by socio-economic group. The vast majority of ABC1 vote PN. The vast majority of C2DE vote Labour. Yes, there are PN voters of that age who behave like that, but they are not the norm. That is the point. In the Labour Party, on the other hand, this sort of thing is not just normal. It is institutionalised. ]

    PN changed its support base radically from one of a “higher background” with the bowing out of Borg Olivier. For all the controversy it caused at the time, EFA was truly a “village lawyer”, and had no problem in embracing the masses. He also realised that without the direct backing of the Church, it was the only way the PN could ever be back in Government.

    [Daphne – Oh, what a mistake you make here. Eddie Fenech Adami is the essence of bourgeois, correct and proper conservatism, and THAT is PRECISELY why people gravitated towards him in their masses: because he was the polar opposite of the vulgar and amoral hamallagni into which Labour and its leaders had descended. THAT was his appeal to the masses. Labour’s appeal to the other masses, on the other hand, was through behaving exactly as they did and encouraging even worse behaviour and more spite and vulgarity and hatred. The Nationalist Party didn’t get into government by appealing to what you describe as the masses, either. It always had mass appeal. It was in fact the party of lawyers and peasants, and I mean peasants in the literal sense, because farming was really big back then. The PN remains the dominant favourite among the rural and farming communities to this day. It was actually the ‘pepe’ and ‘puliti’ vote that brought the Nationalists to power. These were all people whose families had voted for Strickland or for Boffa, who had been passionately anti-PN but who, when push came to shove, Mintoff and KMB were doing their worst, and Eddie Fenech Adami changed the PN completely, finally moved to the PN. This was the PN’s real success under Fenech Adami: it became the party of business, which previous generations of PN lawyers regarded as something inferior and tainted.]

    PL still has a majority on this socio-economic band, but for PN it remains an important segment.

    This also reflects itself in the quality of the MPs…and that is why we land the Edwin Vassallos and the Mario Galeas on the PN wagon…was never the case in the past. It is inevitable that in the next few years there will be a 3rd party, which will be a minority party, but which will meet the aspirations of those of us, “hanging on in quiet desparation”.

    • H.P. Baxxter says:

      Daphne, the data I’ve seen show that the socio-economic distribution among the core vote is the same for both parties. I used to think it was ABC1 for PN and C2DE for Labour, and it came as a bit of a shock. It means PN has no choice but to hamallise itself.

      [Daphne – I’m not talking about the core vote. I’m talking about the people who put the party in power, which is significantly different. And those are ABC1. When they desert the PN, for Labour as in 1996 or to stay at home peevishly as in 2008, the Nationalist Party is in trouble. The core vote always stays where it is. That’s why it’s called the core vote. The political roots of ABC1 voters who support the PN tend not actually to be Nationalist. They do not vote for the party out of traditional loyalty. It’s always a rational (and sometimes, as in 1996 and 2008) choice.]

      • Pampalun says:

        Same here. All data for the last two decades attest to this, no speculation. And the largest number do not have a farming background either.

        So as much as your view has some bearing, not sure it is 100% accurate. In any case, the point I made was that there are a large number of people with similar backgorund and upbringing to the people posting here that vote PN.

        [Daphne – Obviously. Malta is 80% working class, for heaven’s sake.]

      • H.P. Baxxter says:

        OK, I get it. And I agree. This begs the question which we’ve both been asking since 2008: Who speaks for the Stricklandians (Stricklandites? Stricklandjani?) ?

        With PN communicating and acting hamallu all the way through, it is hardly going to attract the floating ABC1 voter, who is naturally tempted to wish a plague of both houses and simply abstain. Note too that the ABC1 rational voter is not likely to be the bazuzlu with connections inside the government, so PN isn’t winning any ABC1 votes with its Sicilian deal-cutting.

      • lulu says:

        dear marcus jien hadt il-lolipops jien u sejra l-iskola imma dear your mother hadet il-lolipops li bellalha missierek miskina xi trid tghamel.

  31. V.Vella says:

    I’ll tell you why these idiots make it to university.

    SEC has a ridiculous policy of not penalising students if they can make their arguments understood.

    This means that we teachers of non-language subjects are forced to correct loads of drivel and award them a pass mark or better, even if we have to struggle to understand their Maltisms.

    Believe me, correcting a history exam paper written in English is a codebreaking exercise in itself.

    Consequently, these nitwits scrape through their Sixth Form and University without ever bothering to learn to express themselves decently in ANY ONE language.

  32. Carmel Scicluna says:

    Kemm jiehdu ghalihom, Daphne, ghax tkun diretta, cara u taqta’ fil-laham il-haj fi kliemek. Generazzjoni wara l-ohra: m’hemmx li nfiequ! Pajjiz tal-imbecilli, anki bi gradwati tal-universita’.

  33. Matthew Vella says:

    I never cease to be amazed by how shocked some of you are by spelling mistakes on blogs, particularly in comment sections. Who cares?

    Internet speak is not a reflection of a person’s level of education, it shows most of you weren’t brought up with the internet. There is absolutely nothing wrong with writing b4 instead of before in this context.

    Although some of these really are ridiculous! Whats wrong with the surname Galizia haha

    [Daphne – ‘Internet speak is not a reflection of a person’s level of education.’ Of course it is, unless you’re saying that a person who knows it’s spelled ‘tghid’ actually sits down and thinks ‘hmmm, I’m on the internet now, so I must write ‘tejt’ not ‘tghid’. ]

    • Kenneth Cassar says:

      “There is absolutely nothing wrong with writing b4 instead of before in this context”.

      Oh yes there is. It takes me just one second to type “before”, approximately the same time it takes me to write “b4”. But that is because, contrary to what you assume, I was actually brought up with the internet, and can touch-type. It also helps if one is neither lazy nor illiterate.

  34. TinaB says:

    “u jekk ridt nidhol avukat stajt ukoll , ax kelli bizzejed requirements.”

    Did those “requirements” include writing Maltese correctly, by any chance?

    Lord give me strength.

    • Peppi iehor says:

      It annoys me that a university student can come out with “kelli requirements”.

      Isn’t that an oxymoron, by the way, in the sense that ‘kelli’ is “I had in my possession” and ‘requirements’ is “bzonnijiet”, these being opposed attributes?

      Could it be the author didn’t know how to spell “qualifications”?

      It annoys me as much as Toni Abela on Super One saying “talab apologija” when he means “he apologised”. He assumes I am ignorant enough to be misled into understanding that whomsoever had demanded an apology rather than vice-versa.

      It gave me an impression of derision, only slightly mitigated by the intellect level betrayed by listeners phoning in.

      Would you believe that, in decrying the shortage of beds at Mater Dei, one irate punter actually phoned to scorn the government for not keeping all the old beds from St Luke’s?

  35. Ooooops says:

    Would someone care to enlighten me? What on earth does SDM mean? and as for Shit starer ? BOQ!

    That idiot managed to derive the word Gully from the word Galizia, as that is the way they pronounce the letter ‘A’. Basically what I mean to say is they pronounce it as Gulizia…

    Anyway, these are after all the same people that rhyme the word tax with sex FFS!!

  36. Warren Ciantar says:

    It was not enough that your previous article on Goodlip was completely ad hominem, you had to go and create another article about the people who commented on that article, also in an ad hominem fashion.

    It’s quite a silly way of ignoring a person’s argument and simply ridiculing them on the basis of the way they write (or look). To me, it looks like you do it because you can’t reply appropriately and cover it up by declaring that you deem yourself too high and mighty to stoop to the level of such people by replying to them for a reason other than to make fun of their writing.

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