Like the Labour Party, here’s another one who’s made a mess because he doesn’t understand English
George Vella and Luciano Busuttil based their motion against Richard Cachia Caruana on two sentences in a US embassy cable which they failed to understand because their knowledge of idiomatic English is very poor.
Now here comes Franco Debono, with the same problem.
On timesofmalta.com, just now:
Informed sources said that Dr Debono’s complaint to the prime minister was about a blog by Daphne Caruana Galizia on January 8 when she wrote that Dr Debono’s mother ‘should be arrested and charged with crimes against the state for foisting her tifel biezel on us’.
Can you believe it? He took that literally. He doesn’t understand that English allows for irony and that sort of humour, because he speaks only a form of Globish.
But then I forget – most of the Labour Party is like him and that’s why they can’t stand my guts. They take everything literally and just don’t get it.
Truly, there are two cultures in Malta and they are worlds apart.
And how’s that for principles, eh? ‘Condemn Daphne and I won’t vote against Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici; don’t condemn her and I’ll vote against him,’ Debono tells the prime minister.
Oh, so it’s not about home affairs and reforms and poor performance, then, is it.
It’s not even about me, either. It’s about exacting revenge on a man he hates and envies.
Imagine if the prime minister were weak, daft and illiberal enough to condemn me publicly for exercising my right to freedom of expression and writing about a politician, just because that politician is threatening him.
So he condemns me. Then what? Who will this sociopath go for next? Whose head on a silver platter will he want?
Giving in to this piece of nastiness was always going to be the thin end of the wedge.
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I thought he was a lawyer, but then always had my doubts.
Ok, we’re in psycho territory here.
“Daphne made me do it.”
The more one reports and comments about his backstabbing ways, the more important it makes him feel.
I’d let him go down the sewer without a second thought.
Well, he is, after all, a cock-fighting peasant.
The fact that he managed to extract a law degree from the University of Malta (after he almost flunked it) does not alter his credentials all that much.
No, Daphne, he speaks Ghaxqi.
The Labour leader just mentioned you as well, Daphne. In the same context as Franco did.
[Daphne – What, d’you mean for a change?]
Exactly what did he expect the PM to do, anyway?
Lend him a hanky, quick. Daphne has made him cry again.
What is unfortunate in this matter is that the scoop about what he had requested in exchange for voting with the government should not have come from you, Daphne, but from the Prime Minister himself, preferably during the parliamentary debate.
That would have probably stunned Franco into submission.
Appeasing him hasn’t worked in the past four years and simply ignoring him when push comes to shove isn’t getting us anywhere either.
Dr. Gonzi now needs to show everyone, particularly luke-warm Nationalists, that he has the balls to handle this egocentric narcissistic megalomaniac. The people are crying out for his blood to avenge Carm’s (even though Carm wouldn’t want that). But then again, revenge is a dish best served cold.
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Most probably, he never enjoyed reading a book, when he was young and I bet he still does not. This would explain the failure in grasping what Daphne really meant in her comment.
Franco, you don’t get to be an intellectual overnight, and going around carrying books will not impress anyone for sure, let alone bolster your ego. And if mummy is your advisor, then, yes, by all means we blame her, because after all you would only be following her advice.
Achieving a doctorate does not put you on any special pedestal on its own. It’s how people respect you all over and how you reciprocate that counts.
Because we are proud to come from Working class people, and be are not British so that our English should not be perfect.
[Daphne – My, what an attitude. ‘I am working-class therefore I have an excuse not to learn stuff.’ Oh sorry, ‘I am working class so even though I spend six years at university and become a lawyer, my inability to learn English is justified.’]
It seems to be the attitude of certan Labour supporters – always finding excuses for their ineptitude. They do not even try to learn more so they can earn higher wages. All they want to do is blame someone or something for their woes. Well, it is easier to do that and get social services and expect everything for free whilst keeping on moaning.
It’s not an attitude, it’s a state of mind.
I love the ‘should not’.
Made Daphne’s point in my opinion.
How is your background relevant to not learning something properly, Mr. Cutajar?
I’m from a working class background, and I am neither ‘proud’ or not proud of it. That’s just the luck of the draw, you are born into what you are born into, and that’s it.
Taking what you are born into and making it better, now that is something I am proud of.
How does justification come into this? You can either speak a language properly or you can’t.
Why be proud of speaking English badly when you’d boast about speaking any other language well – other than, of course, because you have a chip on your shoulder?
So Daphne is now a king-maker?
Your ability to learn English, if you want I could even teach you Russian, and since my father is a working class, you know very well how the system works, Know a days I own a Dental Clinic and very soon I would be a Dentist, the Maltese Mafia University excepts il parinu!!!!!!!!! ETIL
[Daphne – Franco, do stop pretending to be Jeffrey. People become dentists before they own dental clinics.]
I Live in Ukraine and MY CLINIC IS IN UKRAINE,
[Daphne – Franco, get il-mama to ring Joe Cassar. He’s not allowed to have private patients while he’s in cabinet, but he might do you a favour.]
And Studying even in the Ukraine because I DON’T HAVE PARINU
[Daphne – Franco, look, I know you’re not at all bright and that your lack of intelligence is compounded by a couple of psychological problems, but do stop posting insane comments here and using keywords which give you away.]
I am not an laqi ta sorm I don’t need favours from no Minister, I only call what is my right and not asking much more, Like a court case which has to spend 14 years to get solved, this is what we have the incompetency of people like you who is Governing our Nation.
Dap- were you afraid to post on your blog the comment about you attitude how come and who the hell you think you are! To expose family personnel, this is what you call democracy!
[Daphne – What family personnel? Oh, you mean the woman who went on Malta’s most widely watched show to talk about how clever her son Franco is, and then expected not to be criticised for it. It goes with the territory, Franco. Shove your mother in the public eye in that fashion, and what do you expect. This is a democracy, even though it might not be apparent in Hal Ghaxaq. Mur arak toqghod Londra jew Ruma, u tagixxi hekk, kif isajruk haj. Taf fejnu postok? Is-Sirja.]
UUUUUU we have Franco in the audience…..
Franco, here’s another record to add to your 100 in religion in form 2, do you know the Maltese Facebook page with the largest number of members is the one calling for your resignation? And the second largest one is probably the Juventus page? Can’t be fun for a Fiorentina supporter.
Tell us Franco, did it hurt when Biaggo came to play for Juve? Hope it still hurts.
And by the way, I really can’t understand why you think that school report is anything to be proud of. I’d have been terribly disappointed with a 72 in maths in a Form 2 mid-term exam, and I wasn’t top of my class. But maybe standards dropped by the time you came to St. Aloysius.
They certainly dropped in the PN, otherwise you wouldn’t have made it as a candidate. Maybe they thought that if they refused you like they refused Sandro Schembri Adami you’d go over to the other side. Looks like they were right.
Thinking aloud, I remember him playacting and doing Guido imitations when he was 8 years old. I wonder if you share the same psychology. That’s not good news for you.
Quick! Hurry! There’s another marble going past – grab it before its too late.
Didn’t Franco Debono ‘expose’ his mother on Xarabank? So what’s he on about now?
Bir-rispett kollu, La Redoute, but I think it was his mother who exposed Franco, when she said “…kien ta’ rasu…”