That’s what happens when you don’t really speak English
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March 1, 2013 at 11:31am
Some brilliant brain who learned English as a third or fourth language handed out placards to the Uncool People’s Convention at the Corradino Sports Complex last night:
WE’RE ALL IN.
Clearly, they have no idea what it means. It means you’ve reached the end of your tether, are exhausted, worn-out, burned-out, finished.
Idiots. Imbasta nuzaw espressjonijiet bl-Ingliz. M’hemmx xi yardstick ghal li jista jkun?
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Kemm int vojta u bla sens!!!!
Injorant int u l-‘Moviment’ bla sens li ghandkom. Imbasta tghawgu halqkom bl-Ingliz.
Daphne: Did you sleep well last night after you saw those thousands of young people giving such a boisterous reception to Joseph Muscat ? I suppose you felt ALL-IN !
Why vojta u bla sens? Could it be because it is the truth?
Daphne is just pointing out a mistake which is due to crass ignorance, I think.
Daphne’s comment is legitimate for correctness’s sake!
Labourites should learn to accept criticism, C.g.
nitkellmu hames snin ohra C.g
(jew inqas)
Milli jidher, l-unika haga vojta huwa mohhok. Jekk m’ghandekx idea fuq xiex qed titkellem Daphne, ghax m’ghandekx idea ta’ idjomi f’lingwa ohra, l-ahjar haga huwa li taghlaq halqek.
Bla sens huwa l-fatt li nhar is-Sibt 9 ta’ Marzu, il-vot tieghek u tieghi ghandhom l-istess valur.
Wegibtek bil-Malti biex zgur tifhimni.
Makes perfect sense to me.
Vojta ghala? meta titfa akkuza suppost tispjega ruhek ta! Inkella l-akkuza tkun vojta u bla sens :)
Nahseb ahjar tmur ghal xi evenging classes – fl-Ingliz.
C.g minn Daphne titghallem tista’
You mean you count yourself in? You are into something which you have not described? Or are you exhausted? Throwing the towel? Or something else?
Three, two letter words for small?
Is it in?
Eh siehbi, il-verita’ twegga’, hux? Tista’ tkun vojta imma dik hi l-verita’. Lanqas li ma tidhirx orkestrata, bhalma kienu dawk tal-Universita’ u l-MCAST.
Irrid naf liema zghazagh imorru ghal party biex jiddevertu u jiehdu maghhom dawk il-placards kollha f’idejhom.
Pacenzja l-imkatar li ddawwarhom m’ghonqok, jew tkebbibhom fil-but, imma li tigri b’dawk il-placards biex tmur party…!?
Flok ma’ tgħid grazzi talli qed tgħallmek
That’s is your opinion, nitwit.
Ask many out there who like me read Daphne’s blog everyday. Or are you saying this because her wit is much beyond you?
‘We’ll all be in’ if Joe Muscat is prime minister…..’in deep sh”t’
Daphne: Did you sleep well last night after you saw those thousands of young people giving such a boisterous reception to Joseph Muscat ? I suppose you felt ALL-IN !
I think you’re right. GonziPN will be precisely where you indicated !
I am afraid that this is what happens when one substitutes substance with slogans.
The pity is that so many join in repeating the mantra rather than use their own brain, assuming that they do have a balanced and developed one.
Lemmings do the same, but they know no better and are far lower down in the evolution process of the animal kingdom.
Exactly – or in short, it’s the direct opposite of “all out” which is more commonly used, so hopefully the penny will drop.
What they meant was “All of us are in” but that doesn’t sound too catchy, does it?
Come to think of it, that doesn’t really sound right, either. I thought we were all meant to be out and proud.
You are just great, Daphne – a mastermind…well done.
Yes I am IN as well. I will be IN the same fiasco that Labour will put us through.
Prosit Daphne, kemm int brava, minn dejjem kont taffaxxinani hi, ghax bhal dak li qallu “we’re all in” ma tfissirx ukoll “ahna kollha gewwa” f’kuntest normali. Imma int tant int brava fl-Ingliz li bhala espressjoni biss taraha. Int hasra m’intix Lecturer ta’ l-Ingliz fl-Universita’, imma bilhaqq l-Universita’ ta’ Malta l-unika wahda li hawn u fejn hemm il-kelma MALTA ma tantx idoqqlok lilek.
[Daphne – Ma niehux lezzjonijiet fl-Ingliz minn salt Laburisti li trabbew jitkellmu bil-Malti biss, Josef. L-espressjoni ‘all in’ tfisser haga wahda biss, li int – biex nuza espressjoni li forsi tifhem int – ‘spiccut’. Le, ma tfisser xejn ‘ahna kollha gewwa’. L-ewwel nett, lanqas bil-Malti ma tista tghidha, ‘ahna kollha gewwa’, ghax il-kelma ‘gewwa’ tfisser ‘inside’ u mhux ‘in’. Tghid ‘ahna kollha gewwa’ meta tkunu, per ezempju, go xi kaxxa jew karozza jew fid-dar. Bil-Malti tissieheb ma’ moviment jew grupp. Ma tistax taqleb litteralment mil-Ingliz ‘slang’.]
I don’t know why you bother teaching them anything. Such people refuse to learn.
Have you ever played poker ?
You’ve never played poker, have you?
[Daphne – No, I don’t play games. But it doesn’t follow that I don’t know the terminology – or that the people who wrote that play poker in English. Or even that they think it’s a great idea to use a poker term for a political campaign that tries to tell us voting Labour is neither a risk nor a gamble.]
TL, I presume that you are a poker player then.
So am I, so you know that when you are “all in” during a poker game, unless you have a very strong hand, you have a very good chance of getting busted.
Sometimes you can also get busted with the best hand prior the river.
Comparing the same scenarios, I am not ready to go “all in” bearing in mind the state of confusion in the proposals submitted by the Labour Party.
I just have one question for you. Can you please explain to me how the cost for Enemalta comes to 9c6 as indicated in the Labour energy proposal?
Who knows you might persuade me to vote Labour but I am sure that even you have no idea but still believe it.
Actually, as a keen poker player I can assure you that going All-in is rarely an optimal play, unless that is, you’re up against a donk and you are holding the nuts.
Hardly descriptive of the current political scenario, where Joseph and his technicolor movement are pushing all-in on a pure bluff.
All in?
Malta is being dealt like a poker game, so God help us all.
I wonder if this was their inspiration..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inqWAZ8kXJU
In that case…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6xs_q6EOHw
Yeah, they are all in: for a huge, big, disappointing surprise. Just wait and see. time will tell. Then what? They will be shouting “We’re all out”?
Pity the rest of us will have to suffer because of the choices some fools make.
Well said…hit the nail right on the head.
Prosit ma jahrablek xejn….
8 days ……
Yes, Clint. Eight days till your puffed-up egomaniac of a lider begins fucking up our country.
Oh now I get it!
Yes Clint, eight days until the Maltese electorate makes a collective error of judgment of biblical proportions, by voting in Dishonest Joe and his ship of fools.
Or maybe your cryptic ‘8 days…..’ posts are meant to be a subliminal message to the author of this notebook. Then I say, dream on, Clint.
This notebook is going to be even more valid (and even more fun to read) while that shoddy excuse for a ‘movement’ (bowel movement?) are actually in power rather than warming the opposition benched.
U x´ taħseb li ħa jiġri wara l-‘8 days’? Mikrobu kont u tibqa.
Could also refer to the Poker term when someone bets all his chips in a hand. To consider is the fact that it’s sometime done as a bluff – which is what PL is doing. Organising crowds (Uni, Mcast, Hamrun) to ‘bluff’ that they have backing from the majority.
Perhaps you’d prefer the ‘I’m out and proud’ logo that’s being proliferated via Facebook?
I know we have to thank the PL for abolishing buggery laws and all that, but the Nationalists really seem to have ushered in a new era of gay tolerance.
Oh yeah, most of us will ‘be in’ but not as much as the ‘floating voter’ who would have given Joseph a chance and found out how bad a decision it was to trust him.
For us who can see through Labour, no sweat, it will not come as a surprise at all, and neither will it be for the Maltese socialists amongst us.
It will be the floater that will really be taken in – big time.
Kemm int blasens u vera hadra imdejqa .. u btw vera dniedma kerha
Did you notice in the photo just a few metres away from Muscat there is a handwritten placard more like Im PN?
“M’hemmx xi yardstick ghal li jista jkun?”
Madoff these one liners crack me up!
Gargarella daqt tibla il vomtu ahdar li johrog min halqek ja sahhara kerha
Gargamella, jahasra. GargaMella.
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargamella
Ara, mela issa Malta mihiex taghna lkoll?
Sal-bajd.
Imhatra ma tafux taqilbuha bil-Malti.
Or maybe they’re gambling their futures away.
Those definitions, at least the poker ones, seem inaccurate to me.
To be all-in means to be 100% committed. When you go all in in Poker, you’re risking all the money you’ve taken to the table and cannot minimise your losses by folding if you don’t like how the hand is progressing.
The sheer unadulterated hate evident on The Times comments board is frightening.
I’ve never seen this kind of thing, except as dimly remembered memories of when I was a child in the golden years of KMB.
God help this country because the monster is out of the box again.
Kemm inti tan-nejk, bastasa u aroganti. tajjar lil hadt iehor injorant, u l baxxa u l injoranta hija inti. ingliz ma nafx nitkellmu sew imma proud li ma naqax baxxa bhalek . inti mintiex tajba ghal man niex ghax tinheba wara blog biex tajjar lin nies. ghamel pjacir lil kulhadt u get a life ghax jider li ma ghandekx.
U lanqas bil-Malti ma taf tikteb.
“We’re all in” bil-Malti tfisser “Ahna gewwa lkoll”. U l-Malti jghid ‘Min hu gewwa, gewwa u min hu barra, barra’.
Bil-Labour fil- gvern il-Laburisti gewwa u n-Nazzjonalisti u l-floaters barra.
I am very proud for voting for Joseph Muscat seeing people like you daphne makes me more proud to be labour why dont you find a different hobby and stop making a fool of you Pn has already a bad name and having you by their side makes it more easier. I think your scared of loosing your job when Labour is in the goverment hopefully.
[Daphne – I don’t have a job, Sarah.]
I wonder if Sarah could kindly define what ‘loosing your job’ involves.
*losing
You LOSE a job, Sarah, you don’t LOOSE it.
@ Sarah – learn to spell – its not “lossing your job” but “losing your job” .
Writing ‘loosing’ instead of losing is the most common mistake the elves make when writing comments on timesofmalta.com. Maybe you should spread the word around, Sarah.
[Daphne – Yes, and in the last general election campaign, the key misspelt word was ‘intollerant’.]
Sarah, you have just proved Daphne’s point.
It’s “losing” not “loosing” a job. The first word means “titlef”, the latter means “tfettah.”
It’s either “easier” or “more easy” but not “more easier”. That is a literal translation from Maltese, and bad Maltese at that. ‘Ehfef’ jew “aktar hafif’ mhux ‘iktar ehfef’. Imma inti qedha tahseb, ‘iktar facli’.
Your punctuation is equally appalling. You cannot string an intelligible counter argument together. Rather, in true Mintoffian fashion you resort to insults to feel good about your own inadequacy at producing a better argument.
You do not realise that Labour relish in maintaining people in ignorance. In that way, it is easier for your leaders to manipulate you and act as a substitute for your inherent needs of blind following and cultism.
Thank you. I prefer to err on the side of measured judgement rather than pure blind emotion. I am proud to vote for another Nationalist government. We’re not at all perfect; we’re simply the better choice.
I am very pleased that most of you read my message and of course you had nothing to say and instead you tried to correct my spelling mistakes as if you are trying to make a fool of me cause I am Labour and I am damn proud of it.
Oh dear, Sarah!
Do you know about punctuation?
‘You’re’ not ‘your’.
Easier…
But whatever…
You don’t really speak English, do you?
Sarah, we are not trying to make a fool of you. You are doing a damm good job all by yourself.
No one is going to take anything you write in English seriously if you can’t use correct grammar and punctuation.
This is a joke, right?
More easier? Really?
We’re scared all right and scarred and so are you, but you don’t know it.
proud OF
Daphne with a capital D
prouder, not ‘more proud’
don’t, with an apostrophe
a fool of YOURSELF
PN, two capital letters
easier, not ‘more easier’
you’re, not your
losing, no ‘loosing’
And you’re a great advert for your hero if you think that electing him means anyone will lose their job. You busted the Malta Taghna Lkoll myth with that one remark.
Oh, and you can’t be proud of voting for Joseph Muscat, seeing as he wasn’t elected to Malta’s parliament.
clearly You have a job cause if you did not you would not be in favour of the goverment and always offending labour
[Daphne – No, Sarah, I DON’T have a job. I haven’t had a job since the 1990s.]
Sunshine, you’ve got things backwards, which doesn’t surprise since you’re a self-declared Joseph groupie.
Of course people believe that a PN government is safer for jobs. It’s madness to think otherwise, given that Joseph Muscat’s economic nous is just about zero.
And if the Labour party and its members are offended by criticism, well, what can I say? That only tells us what we already knew. Their totalitarian mindset is still what it was.
Fucking muppet. Since when did one have to be on PN’s payroll to dislike a tired, incompetent, spiteful bunch of socialist hypocrites and opportunists?
Job indeed – is this projection on your part?
Do think the opposition consists solely of paid lackeys like yourself who just happen to have a different alliance?
Do concepts such as ‘free markets’ and ‘freedom of expession’ mean anything to you? Suppose not.
You can be as proud as you like. To me, you’re just scum.
Tell me …. if Daphne had a job should she be scared of losing it?
Why should she, or anyone else, be afraid of ‘loosing’ their job? Ah you’re right, Sarah…it’s il-Labour we’re talking about and job creating is not their forte.
“Clearly, they have no idea what it means. It means you’ve reached the end of your tether, are exhausted, worn-out, burned-out, finished.”
As flag-waving supporters on standby, they must be exhausted by now. I know it’s not the case, but I still like to think it’s a clever double entendre.
[Daphne – It’s not a double entendre, and you know it. You’re dealing there with people who know no idiomatic English. Don’t be disingenuous.]
We’re all in.
Yippee Yey!
We’re all in.
Vifa llejber Vifa llejber hey hey!
We’re all injoranti sa certu punt.
Min bil ghazla u min bid-destin.
Really clutching at straws Daphne. I mean, come on, is this the best you could come up with. to be all in is an idiomatic expression but it also has a literal meaning. ‘I’m all in’ as you posted doesn’t because I is singular and therefore doesn’t need ‘all’ but we does. If I’m in the club, and you are in the club, and everybody else is in the club then it must mean that ‘we’re all in’. If a group of siblings have been playing outside and it suddenly starts raining they all rush in. The mother calls the oldest child on her mobile phone (mum is still at work) and says ‘I hope all of you are indoors now since it’s pouring’, and the daughter answers ‘ Yes mum, don’t worry. WE’RE ALL IN’. So there is not only one meaning of this expression.
[Daphne – More lessons in English from Laburisti. How tedious.]
So bombastic, and so wrong.
What are they in, into or inside of – Joseph’s ass?
We’re all INSIDE
See what happens when you speak incorrectly? Children pick up your bad habits. Explain to those poor children sheltering from the rain that they should have said “WE’RE ALL INSIDE”.
And I hate to disappoint you but the plural of “I’m in” is “We’re in”.
“We’re all in” means you’re exhausted. I don’t blame you. It must be hell trailing a fake.
Or it could mean you’re betting all you’ve got (at least in poker).
Wow, how many people are in!
Oh and by the looks of it and what they write they truly believe in Malta Taghna Lkoll.
Proset ta’ veru eh!
Daphne, we just love your blogs dear, so keep going strong girl!
I’ve always thought this Moonie-style campaign was a charade. All it takes is one tiny remark for the masks to come off.
Nice going, Elves. You’ve just proven what the rest of us have always known. Kontu, ghadkom, u tibqghu intolleranti. Mur gibkom fil-gvern.
I am out and proud not to be in. Keep doing the good work you are doing.
Oh how they come out of the woodwork, en masse.
Signs of panic?
Hahahahahaha :D
Loving the Laburisti’s comments… fanno pena.
Have a look at this.
http://www.maltarightnow.com/?module=news&at=The+Good%2C+the+Bad+and+the+Ugly…+Malta+fost+the+Good&t=a&aid=99845221&cid=24
U le kemm qedha sew jahasra ghad jasal iz- zmien.
Viva l – Labor.
Malta Taghkom
jasal iz-zmien ghal……..?
Some of the comments above would nearly lead one to conclude that the ‘educational’ system has completely failed at its roots – the parents.
Report: ‘Chinese third graders are falling behind Maltese university students in maths and science.’
Sahhara Sahhara Kerha HIHihihihihihi
All in, are you? Exhaustion does strange things to the mind, especially when the raw material isn’t too promising to begin with.
Funny – how did this post attract so many Laburisti? It’s been a while..
They are prepariong for the “Malta taghna l-koll” parade.
Of course they’re exhausted! They have been waiting for 15 years.
You have to work with such people to know what ignorance comes out of their mouth.