He is competing with Bruno Vespa.

I guess that he hasn’t even started writing it yet, or thought about what’s going in it.

Maybe he’s thinking about getting some inspiration from the abhorrent Fifty Shades trilogy to attract that kind of readership.

But this certainly looks like a case of desperate times calling for desperate measures.

Not being the most adept in the English language, I had to go and check, and it seems to me that the title is perfectly correct.

Fine, so it’s American-English, but still grammatically and idiomatically correct. The fact that it translates literally into Maltese is neither here nor there.

[Daphne – In Malta, we use British English. Not American.]

Please, allow me just this once, Daphne….LOOOOOOL

[Daphne – I don’t put anything in the header with a picture. The topmost post with a picture goes to the top – that’s automatic. Unless, of course, I decide to stick a post to the front page. If you are getting a 404 error, I would check it out at your end. At my end, it functions on all browers.]

“saying it as it is” (actual title): 3.2 bn hits.
“telling it as it is”: 8.83 mn hits.
“saying it like it is” (your wrongly-assumed title): 1.42 bn hits
“telling it like it is” (your suggestion): 258 mn hits.

This means that you are – in the best case – wrong by a factor of (3.2 bn/8.83 mn)=386 (rounded up) (don’t take this calculation too seriously).

(Disclaimer: I acknowledge that this methods strictly speaking measures what is more colloquially common, rather than what is right, and I don’t claim to be an expert in English grammar, but I think the numbers justify Saviour Balzan’s choice of title in this case.)

[Daphne – British English (Malta’s official language) – TELLING it like/as it is. Who cares what the Americans say?]

if you read it, you will catch bad lettuce

I am sure J Dalli will advertise it in Brussels. Is Salvu promising any commission?