Now there’s Joseph and Michelle’s ‘wine-tasting in Asti’ friend on TVM
Bjorn Charles Borg
That’s Edward Zammit Lewis, Labour star candidate – the lawyer who defended Bjorn Charles Borg who stole Eur93,000 in payments from international students at the University of Malta and then had him star in one of Joseph Muscat’s campaign videos with his face painted red and white.
Such trash. Jista jmur wine-tasting Asti mal-Fearless Leader u Michelle u xorta zibel minghajr principji jibqa.
Now they’ve played a clip from yesterday’s debate. Joseph Muscat is really going for this certain-kind-of-middle-class thing. He makes the single verbal error that I most associate with that demographic: INEXISTENT. No such word – it’s a transposition from the Maltese ‘inezistenti’.
Listen up, Joseph (and the rest): the word is NONEXISTENT.
In a recent ‘on the campaign trail with Joseph’ video he was asked about his plans for the morning: “Blah blah blah THEN WE’RE GOING TO LIJA AYY.”
Then we’re going to Lija ayy.
Say what you will, but I don’t want to hear a grown man talking like that. I especially don’t want to hear a political leader talk that way.
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Joseph Muscat’s accent slipped rather a lot yesterday when he had to answer unrehearsed questions. He’s clearly not up to the task of doing more than one thing at once.
Some suspect that there was also Simone Cini together with her pilot husband wine tasting at Asti together with the fearless leader.
That was when the boarding at the Italian airport closed and the airplane closed the doors and was about to leave when captain Simone Cini stopped the plane so that his tardy family won’t be left stranded in Italy.
(L-Air)Malta taghna lkoll.
Of interest Could Air Malta inform us when it is going to conclude the investiagtion re the plane departure delay from Paris airport involving Simone’s Cini family and her husband the Air Malta captain?
Maaaaaaaaaa… let’s to to Lija ’cause I’m really fed up here… Xi dwejjaq aayyyy..?
I happen to be watching labour star candidate Dottor Edward Zammit Lewis yet again raising on TVM the subject of SmartCity and the lack of ICT jobs this project has failed to create – I assume in the process implying that many ICT graduates are sadly without any job.
Rather than simply re-enacting the voice of his master, Dottor Edward Zammit L should listen closely to what his master is actually being told during his own pre-election visits.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130122/elections-news/planning-extensions-will-come-with-conditions-muscat.454319
“Dr Muscat visited the offices of software company Ascent in Luqa where he heard company bosses say they were not finding enough people to employ in the ICT sector.
Acknowledging the big advancements in the sector achieved by the Nationalist administration, Dr Muscat said a Labour government was committed to ensure the sector’s growth and emphasised the importance of continuous personal development.”
I suppose facts therefore speak for themselves.
I think they use it in the U.S., but it’s not standard English.
They don’t.
Go to http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary
Merriam Webster is a US English dictionary.
[Daphne – In Malta, the official language is British English, not US English. US English is spoken only by US citizens and by non-Europeans who learn English at school or off the television.]
Referring to “Inexistent”.
Got his flyer,
‘Jghix fir-rahal pittoresk ta’ Hal Lija..’
Ahjar jizbor il-creeper li ghandu mdendel mal-wires tad-dawl ghax jitfi nofs rahal.
Look at this:http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130227/opinion/Was-Dom-Mintoff-right-.459413
This is truly terrifying proof that Labour hasn’t changed at all and that the maggots are already beginning to writhe in the flesh of this country as it totters over the edge of a new Socialist abyss.
Are Hayek, Popper and Friedman so difficult to understand?
Who’s this geezer? These people are scary.
His English diction is horrendous. In today’s news on TVM there were 2 clips of his meetings with English speaking people, and where of course he had to converse in English. ” I hope I can communicate this enthusiasm” he fumbled at some point. Was embarrassing, really.
At one point he told Edwin Vassallo: Dak Dr Joseph Muscat ghalik. I hope I heard well.
Why was Muscat answering in English in this on-the-campaign video you speak of?
http://www.akkuza.com/2012/12/16/that-inexistent-opposition/
Jacquez René Zammit makes the same mistake.
In fairness, ‘inexistent’ does exist, but the much more widely used and accepted term would be ‘nonexistent’.
[Daphne – My God, how exhausting this is. INEXISTENT is used only by a certain kind of Maltese person from a certain kind of social group. People who grew up speaking proper English say NONEXISTENT. Inexistent is a direct transposition from Maltese. I had never heard the word until a few years ago, when I began hearing it everywhere among certain kinds of people. The queen of ‘inexistent’was that woman Mona Farrugia who used to write about restaurants. And that just about says it all.]