Mur gib lil omm Ramona fi zmienha jkollha prim ministru jkellem lit-tfal bl-Ingliz kif rajna lil Joseph ilbierah. Dik il-problema li issa kollox inbidel, m’ghadkomx titajru bl-inglizati u l-avukati u tobba.

Grazzi ghal gvernijiet Nazzjonalisti uliedkom kollha lahqu. Issa bil-kju biex issiru avukati.

And who’s been confined to the ghetto.

Whatever she’ll do, Ramona will get the credit and make it to the billboard.

Cyrus was supposed to be Labour’s prize testimonial, Gauci Cunningham goes onto that one instead.

Manuel Mallia’s sent to douse the flames, but rarely ever on their fabled ONE as spokesman for a particular sector.

The only time he did, Herrera ignored his presence, it was embarrassing. Even because he refused to entertain Manuel’s absolutes to the disasters in the judiciary and lawmaking.

Good one, afm.

Yes Marieneve, you can say what you want thanks to all the liberty brought by the PN.

Would you like to change that too?

The language issue is so tedious. I have more than a few tal-pepe friends from Sliema. The real deal, with nobility titles and all. I have no problem switching to English with them. That doesn’t make me a fake, simply someone who would rather meet them half-way, seeing I’m more comfortable speaking English than they are speaking Maltese. On the other hand, I have blocked an old school mate from the South, from all social networking sites. We caught up after some 20 years and I just could not stomach her and her fake English speaking ways.

My Sliema friends know my parents and know full well that my mother much like Ramona’s is barely literate with a poor grasp of English. I don’t think the issue here is politics but pretending to be someone you are not.

I simply tend to address people back in the same language they address me without giving things much thought. I speak at least three languages fluently and despite my background I have a neutral accent in any language I speak. Being the offspring of working class parents from Zejtun does not mean you are raised to speak in dialect. We’ve long had social mobility. I consider Maltese my native language. However, I struggle to write proper Maltese and would never dream of writing e-mails in Maltese or reading a book in Maltese. I probably received a poor education in Maltese. At home it was always Eynid Blyton and back then i.e. the 70s there weren’t as many children’s books in Maltese as there are today.

“What do you mean by a new Ferrari ???”

God give me strength.

And after the 10th of March, please help us all – we are going to need it.

You’ve got the national misgiving there.

Diana’s Audi convertible for the masses. Islanders will do it.

She doesn’t look fake. She is fake.

I would rather have somebody whose English is not up to scratch but who isn’t liar, than somebody who lies in good English.

Ouch!