There’s a wealth of gold nuggets if we want to go into the automobile domain.

Shockupsovers, spartin pluks etc. Someone should do a dissertation about it.

The nursing aide therefore attempted to speak English, presumably to ask who was waiting to be wheeled to the X-Ray room. Unfortunately he did not specify whether he was there to wheel patients back from the X-Ray room to the corridor or to the X-Ray room from the corridor.

I am usually fairly tolerant but in a hospital setting where miscommunication can have drastic consequences, I expect employees to be able to string sentences together.

That is nearly as bad as these wannabe hipsters that purposely spell “the” as “teh” but that silly trend seems to be passing these last two years.

My mistake, never been there.

I have just had the opportunity to listen to a clip in which one of the graduates had some situation to expose – I still cannot understand why the heck did he ever choose a language which he could barely speak.

And this, not to mention the puerile manner in which he tried to relate what he had in store.

I felt like crying in despair.

In my time, and that’s many many years ago, it would have been dubious whether he would have ended up with a ‘pass’ in the Senior Oxford School Certificate exam – let alone graduate from university.

I disagree – it indicates a family that does not value education much.

I went to school in the 90s, when we were strictly forbidden to speak in Maltese outside of the Maltese lessons.

French was also compulsory for all. However, a number of people I went to school with cannot converse except in stutterings of Maltese in the form illustrated above.

On the other hand, members of my family who did not even finish primary education (World war II got in the way) speak fluent Maltese and Italian.