Comments on: What sort of lawyer notes down in the minutes of a meeting that one of the parties has balls? https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/12/what-sort-of-lawyer-notes-down-in-the-minutes-of-a-meeting-that-one-of-the-parties-has-balls/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:03:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Artemis https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/12/what-sort-of-lawyer-notes-down-in-the-minutes-of-a-meeting-that-one-of-the-parties-has-balls/#comment-585143 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:03:13 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=25201#comment-585143 In reply to H.P. Baxxter.

She found out he had balls at the poolside meeting in Gozo when he was wearing his budgie smugglers. Well, I assume they weren’t Brussels sprouts he had down there.

]]> By: Qeghdin Sew https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/12/what-sort-of-lawyer-notes-down-in-the-minutes-of-a-meeting-that-one-of-the-parties-has-balls/#comment-583349 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:43:43 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=25201#comment-583349 In reply to anthony.

Filju from figlio, but tfilju?

]]> By: Min Weber https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/12/what-sort-of-lawyer-notes-down-in-the-minutes-of-a-meeting-that-one-of-the-parties-has-balls/#comment-581661 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:30:24 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=25201#comment-581661 In reply to anthony.

Indeed, a corruption of a mishmash of Latin and Sicilian: U patri ut filju u spirtu santu.

The “t” in the second “u” is a remnant of “et”.

This is Salvatore-like speech (do you remember him from The Name of the Rose?), which was typical of the Middle Ages.

]]> By: Wilson https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/12/what-sort-of-lawyer-notes-down-in-the-minutes-of-a-meeting-that-one-of-the-parties-has-balls/#comment-581649 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:24:54 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=25201#comment-581649 In reply to Angus Black.

Well he has eye balls, if that is what she meant.

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/12/what-sort-of-lawyer-notes-down-in-the-minutes-of-a-meeting-that-one-of-the-parties-has-balls/#comment-581514 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:02:32 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=25201#comment-581514 In reply to Rover.

Or snus. Look what it did to Jesse Ventura in ‘Predator’.

]]> By: anthony https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/12/what-sort-of-lawyer-notes-down-in-the-minutes-of-a-meeting-that-one-of-the-parties-has-balls/#comment-581374 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:42:23 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=25201#comment-581374 In reply to A.Attard.

You are all wrong.

‘U patri u tfilju u spirtu ssantu’.

I am adamant that I am correct on this one . I was not so sure about the ‘imexxu n-nisa’ expression.

I have a penchant for matters religious rather than for those concerning human trafficking.

[Daphne – Imexxu n-nisa as with imexxu d-drogi: trafficking as distinct from pimping.]

]]> By: Rover https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/12/what-sort-of-lawyer-notes-down-in-the-minutes-of-a-meeting-that-one-of-the-parties-has-balls/#comment-581315 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:05:23 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=25201#comment-581315 J Dalli BA ghandu par babaw. Must be all that GMO stuff.

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/12/what-sort-of-lawyer-notes-down-in-the-minutes-of-a-meeting-that-one-of-the-parties-has-balls/#comment-581233 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:20:36 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=25201#comment-581233 How would she know nudge nudge wink wink?

]]> By: Angus Black https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/12/what-sort-of-lawyer-notes-down-in-the-minutes-of-a-meeting-that-one-of-the-parties-has-balls/#comment-581190 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:57:16 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=25201#comment-581190 “If there was a commissioner with balls, this is the one.”

Maybe for ease of gender identification?

]]> By: A.Attard https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/12/what-sort-of-lawyer-notes-down-in-the-minutes-of-a-meeting-that-one-of-the-parties-has-balls/#comment-581088 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:01:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=25201#comment-581088 I think the last line should be “Patri, filju, spirtu santu…..”

[Daphne – Possibly, but my bunch only use the last three words.]

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