Comments on: Two of Labour’s big cheeses have an intellectual exchange on Facebook https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/12/two-of-labours-big-cheeses-have-an-intellectual-exchange-on-facebook/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:35:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: dery https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/12/two-of-labours-big-cheeses-have-an-intellectual-exchange-on-facebook/#comment-138048 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:35:36 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=15877#comment-138048 In reply to Grezz.

Learned with the stress on the last syllable is used as in ‘knowledgeable’ and it is an adjective as in ‘he is a learned man of science’. It is also used with the stress on the first syllable as the past tense of the verb ‘to learn’.

]]> By: Grezz https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/12/two-of-labours-big-cheeses-have-an-intellectual-exchange-on-facebook/#comment-137820 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:48:50 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=15877#comment-137820 In reply to dery.

“Learned” has an entirely differet meaning – and pronunciation – to those whose English was not learnt past the age of 10.

]]> By: Lomax https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/12/two-of-labours-big-cheeses-have-an-intellectual-exchange-on-facebook/#comment-137816 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:46:17 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=15877#comment-137816 The funniest thing about this exchange is your title to the blog post. How ever you come up with them, I wonder?

]]> By: Grezz https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/12/two-of-labours-big-cheeses-have-an-intellectual-exchange-on-facebook/#comment-137160 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:38:38 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=15877#comment-137160 In reply to Alex.

Yes, including the odd family of maggots.

]]> By: Grezz https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/12/two-of-labours-big-cheeses-have-an-intellectual-exchange-on-facebook/#comment-137158 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:37:46 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=15877#comment-137158 Maybe they’re trying to emulate Ronnie Pellegrini. All they have got to do next is to send Magistrate Consuelo Scerri Herrera a bouquet of virtual flowers. Imbaghad ikunu ghaqdu l-borma.

]]> By: dery https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/12/two-of-labours-big-cheeses-have-an-intellectual-exchange-on-facebook/#comment-137132 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:13:13 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=15877#comment-137132 My God… quoting the intellectually challenged Forrest Gump to look clever. The irony surely escapes him.

Also, ‘learnt’ is the old fashioned past participle of ‘to learn’. If he wants to look modern he should use ‘learned’.

]]> By: Banderas Herrera https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/12/two-of-labours-big-cheeses-have-an-intellectual-exchange-on-facebook/#comment-137094 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:13:47 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=15877#comment-137094 How about ”Life sucks” because we might actually get you as our Minister of Finance, or will it be Edwaaard Scicluna.?

]]> By: ciccio2011 https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/12/two-of-labours-big-cheeses-have-an-intellectual-exchange-on-facebook/#comment-137027 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:26:49 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=15877#comment-137027 If he’s told us the only thing he’s learnt, he’s told us everything he thinks.

]]> By: Groucho https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/12/two-of-labours-big-cheeses-have-an-intellectual-exchange-on-facebook/#comment-136936 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:24:35 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=15877#comment-136936 “In life there is one thing I have learnt ”

That’s it? He’s learnt ONE thing and one thing only?

Pity he’s not yet learned to express himself correctly.

]]> By: Joe Micallef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/12/two-of-labours-big-cheeses-have-an-intellectual-exchange-on-facebook/#comment-136921 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:54:59 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=15877#comment-136921 “but to think everything I say”

Does he?

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