No problem, madam; uploading my message is the same but different (if you’ll pardon my oxymoron).

The above comment is a reply to Joel’s post containing the link http://complaints.com.mt/maltese-government/franco-debono/ which I followed, only to find a very poorly-written piece shooting down someone else’s poor writing.

The author is not identified, but I felt s/he should make more of an effort before bombastically flaming someone else’s language skills.

My post seems to have become disjointed by not appearing as a reply to that comment. This renders it unspecific insofar as my reference to “the author of the linked piece” is concerned.

[Daphne – If you click Reply, it comes up as a reply. You might simply have posted it directly beneath the comment, but when you do that, other comments posted before yours and not yet uploaded will come between them, given that comments are chronological. So always, if you wish to reply to something, use the Reply box.]

If it is not too much trouble, would you be so kind as to add this post as a footer to my previous one, or perhaps edit the earlier post by inserting “@ Joel January 12, 2012 AT 9:19 PM” as a header, for the sake of putting my comment in perspective.

I offer my thanks in anticipation, as always.

[Daphne – I can’t really do that, no.]

S/he then proceeded to butcher the rest of his/her blog with, for example, “irrelevant” instead of “irrespective”, wrong conjugation of the conditional mood (“if I was” instead of “if I were”) and says “will” where s/he should have said “would”. Or how about “responds” instead of “answers” or “is answerable to”?

I gave up after that because the whole piece is riddled with bad grammar, so I hope the author does not really think badly of others’ writing; I hope also that s/he does not intend his piece to set standards for English grammar.

I hope I don’t sound like some menopausal “schoolmarm” but this is a genuine case of the pot calling the kettle black. Brush up please sir/madam, whoever you are. If one of my grandchildren were to write as poorly as that, I would be extremely disappointed.

…or the Speaker, Police Commissioner and Archbishop should resign.

I rest my case.

He should request that the Speaker of the House and the Police Commissioner, and perhaps the Archbishop as well, why not, urgently investigate this heinous assault on democracy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dudkhtAvPk