Two months after listing, this humidity fire remains unsold. So let’s give the seller a bit of a hand.
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October 1, 2013 at 12:11am
Not long now before ‘humidity fire’ becomes the Maltese for ‘dehumidifier’ – after all, if ‘pirmli’ can become the Maltese word for ‘pilloli’, we’re halfway there.
Humidity fire – I LOVE IT. You just have to admire the way they got a word like ‘humidity’ right, spelling and all, while getting dehumidifier so disastrously wrong. It’s sublime.
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There is some logic to it. It looks like a fireplace, and it fights off humidity. Anyway, at least we have not yet regressed to hjumiditifajr, though One has no doubt that we shall get there eventually.
Why not? In the land of anything-goes, errr-kon-dishin (as opposed to air conditioning system or air conditioning unit) went mainstream long ago.
There are FIVE humidity fires on Maltapark.
I have heard it referred to as a human defier.
On Maltapark you really find all manner of concoctions. I stopped bothering long ago.
A similar one I hear repeatedly every time I pick my Sunday newspapers is the “classic file” (for ‘classified’).
No surprise here.
This is a country where krucifiss becomes kurcifiss, polvri becomes porvli, ponsettia becomes ponsjetta, delfin becomes denfil and so on ad nauseam.
What takes the biscuit in my opinion is a travel brochure I remember seeing in a shop in Rabat, Gozo some years back where Marsalforn was explained as ‘Gone to the bakery’.
Gone to the bakery! Brilliant! Thanks for the laugh! We’ve really gone to de docks now.
How about “petlor”, “arjuport” or “Ingriterra”.
Don’t forget “loverver”
Cikcifogu…
That’s how English evolved from broken French and Latin.
[Daphne – Yes, Paul, in the centuries when nobody except monks knew how to read and write. Language ‘evolves’ through the mashing up of loan-words in an illiterate, not literate, society.]
True, it did not occur to me.
Paul Bonnici, for various reasons which are too complicated to list, you are an idiot. But it’s not your fault. Our top professuri, Joe Friggieri in primis, have fed the lie about languages evolving like some sort of linguistic Glastonbury Festival.
Think on this: Why is it called a “dehumidifier”? You can trace the evolution of the word right back to its Latin origins. Now try tracing “humidity fire” back to anywhere.
U dak il-PINETRI fil-loghba tal-Belt mal-Furjana! Veru kien mixtri r-refelin.