Of such sharp and able stuff will the Labour cabinet be formed
The moment you say to yourself that this prospective minister can’t go any deeper down the stupidity pool, he does.
It’s just unbelievable that people are prepared to swap brains and ability for the contents of a vegetable truck and a bookie’s backyard just because they’re bored of the former.
Luciano Busuttil the cabinet minister: he wants to get rid of English, and despite being an adult, a lawyer and a senior politician, he doesn’t know the difference between a national language and an official one.
Read my lips, Luciano: English, you ruddy kohlrabi, is the latter. And sure, let’s ditch English to raise another new Socialist generation of people who can’t speak anything but Maltese and so end up completely uneducated and isolated.
Dak ghaliex bilkemm taf bl-Ingliz int? Ja gidra. Se taghmel opra fil-kabinett.
Mouth-breather bhal dan kif sar avukat? Best not answer that.
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X’tahseb fuq Claudette Pace (Buttigieg), Daphne?
[Daphne – I like her. She’s got loads of personality and I think she would make a good MP. Shame Franco won’t be in the same parliament, because I’d like to see him trying to interrupt her or ridicule her.]
Plus she was some kind of PA for Joe Cassar for some time if I’m not mistaken, so she does have an inkling of what goes on in politics.
On your note Daphne, I would really like to see Franco try to interrupt her…I bet he would secretly get all hot and bothered by her reaction
….. I like her …… sa kemm ma ddurx mal-Lejber – sellili
http://www.alexcutajar.com/2012/09/getting-to-know-luciano-busuttil-mp.html
“You can say I am a court animal.”
RAAAWWWWRRRR! Isn’t that sexy.
Oh my! I really cannot wait to see these characters defending our interests in Brussels.
Basla f’nofs medda kabocci u gdur.
…. u ejja man ….
Tajjeb.
Sur Lucjan int tista ddur id-dinja u titkellem bil Malti ma kulhadd.
Jien ma nistax.
Id-differenza bejnitna hi li int gbajt taqa’ ghan-nejk.
Jiena nghodd daqsekk darbtejn u ma nhobbx naqa’ ghan-nejk.
De gustibus.
….. non disputandum est !
What an idiot. You’re right of course, it’s most likely because he does not feel comfortable enough speaking English.
I often walk into an office or shop and the person there speaks to me in English only to revert to Maltese after they hear me speaking it better than they do.
This sometimes happens after I’ve watched them put another client through hell because he or she struggles to converse well in English.
I try to talk to people in the language they use to talk to me. Neither my English nor my Maltese may be perfect but I will happily speak either of them.
You sure don’t spell your name right
@Daphne
Have to confess that I had to look up this ‘alien’ word…and wonder of wonders this is what I came up with (hehe);
“Kohl rabi (or kohlrabi) is one of those vegetables that makes a regular appearance in veg boxes, but sits, unused, in the corner of the fridge until it slowly goes off.”
Quite fitting, don’t you think?
[Daphne – That’s Britain, Brian. The kohlrabi is one of Malta’s most commonly used root vegetables and a staple of every vegetable truck: the gidra. A gidra is a kohlrabi, not a turnip. A turnip is something else entirely. In idiomatic English, Luciano would properly be a turnip, and in idiomatic Maltese, a gidra.]
Now there’s a thought. We’ll teach English but make it illegal to be spoken, read or written.
Is this idiot aware that thanks to fools like him we still find that the great majority of our state school students actively resist speaking or reading English and utterly refuse to pronounce it correctly?
The consequence is that they do poorly in their O level and struggle in further education because all the textbooks are in English.
Hawn qieghed il-hazen tal-Partit Laburista: jippromwovi sens ta’ identita’ nazzjonali bazwija biex lil niesu jzommhom maqfulin fl-injoranza.
A cross between a cabbage and a turnip maybe?
[Daphne – It’s actually a cabbage cultivar.]
Luciano’s children speak English (they go to Chiswick House School) and their mother speaks Manglish.
So, he is either playing to some populist tune or he is so intellectually limited that he can’t see the inconsistency between what he proclaims to believe and his family’s lifestyle choices.
Populist. That’s exactly the problem. Wait until it hits the headlines tomorrow. You’ll have half the ruddy island in favour of this monumental shard of idiocy.
Plus the usual intellectuals and a fair sprinkling of politicians. Mark my words.
We’ve already eradicated all traces of English from our road signs.
The University of Malta, that nest of scintillating intellect, not to be outdone, followed suit.
I give it a couple of years at most. In 2014, to coincide with 50 years of independence, English will be removed from our official languages. Malta has become so mired in cretinism.
Dr Busuttil not Mr
The horrendous Anglesh is intentional of course.
Luciano, the bard from the sawt,
how about replacing english with arabic?
that way we can do bisiness with di tunisians and di libjans, they give us kaffe and we give them gdur – bhalek
As the Italians, who spoend a fortune in Malta to learn English, would probably answer your stupid observation: Va a cacare, coglion
Of such stuff is our parliament made of. How about transferring half of it to the greenhouses of ELC?
The other half can stay on Valletta though
I used to have so much fun walking into art galleries and antiquarians’ in Brera to lay it on thick ten years ago. Flustered, they’d actually blush trying to keep their arms stitched to the sides. Molto British.
Been up again this year, they’ve learnt the language AND reduced the accent.
Possibbli ma ndunax li hu wkoll ghazel il-kelma “captain” meta, la minghalih qieghed jiddefendi l-Malti seta qal il-mexxej, jew kaptan tat-tim?
It’s 1:02 AM, pm, and in today’s Moltiz it would be, Keptinn.
Remember, ours is the age of blekbort and mowbajl and telefown.
Ours is way ahead, for it is the age of Fejsbuk and Ajfown and Guwgil.
Is the rumour true that Labour will disconnect the international internet link, meaning you could only access Maltese websites?
I also heard that the link abroad WILL be available but only to certain people on a magic list but there is no way of knowing how to get on that list.
Don’t remember which Denfil.
U l-kotra qamet f’daqqa
u ghajtet jiena Maltija!
miskin min ikasbarni
miskin min jidhaq bija!
Then there’s Buttigieg with his twinkle twinkle little star
teptep teptep
kekwba ckejkna
teptep teptep
fis-smewwiet
The dogs in the illustrations were miserable looking mutts.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=memes+i+DONT+WANT+TO+LIVE+ON+THIS+PLANET+ANYMORE+&view=detail&id=7B6DF4B46939F6DF4A247EF8C00DC6B68FD24388&FORM=IDFRIR
My sentiments exactly.
“Kohlrabi” Luciano. I’m still laughing my head off.
I hope I just don’t burst out laughing in my more solemn moments of the day when I think of this description which, I have to say, is so very apt.
There are also a few (Maltese) grammatical errors: e.g. jibqax and not jibqghax, jaqra’ and not jaqra.
Staqsi lill-avukatini gdur nazzjonalisi -figli di papa – kif ghaddew mill-ezamijiet qabel tlablab Daphne
[Daphne – Kemm hawn min hu marid, jahasra. Must come from living so tightly packed on a small island, like lab rats in a cage. Good thing none of my sons had the slightest inclination to become a lawyer.]
However we did send a bunch of morons to Brussels to translate everything into Maltese, when we could have easily retained English as our primary communication language in Europe.
Regrettably, this administration also contributed to the depletion of the English language which was predominant at primary and secondary education levels.