Let’s hope the organisation of those 63 events is properly professional, unlike the website
The National Festivities Foundation has launched at last, with a press conference and a website that boggles the mind with its cheap amateurism, poor composition, appalling copy, random punctuation, numerous typos and one really frightening spelling mistake: COMITY for committee.
All those people on the foundation board and not one of them could be fagged to write a few lines of proper copy or at least proof-read the rubbish somebody else wrote.
How can they even think of letting something like this go out in their names and the name of a national foundation: COMITY. ENTRAPRENEUR. IT’S for its.
I have to say, though, that it’s COMITY which really takes the biscuit.
This is the National Festivities Foundation, for crying out loud, and they launch with a website that’s a mess. I’m trying to work out what is more worrying: that the members of the ‘comity’ didn’t bother to read it before it went live, or that they read it and didn’t notice the mistakes.
I’ve proof-read it for them, seeing as how none of them could be bothered, and I’ve also helpfully suggested that they change the reference to ‘our events’, since they are not a private company or organisation marketing their own productions, to ‘these events’.
Another thing: the website itself is truly appalling. It is badly designed, catastrophically organised, and is effectively just the one page which draws up the relevant bits according to what you click on the menu bar. It literally screams AMATEUR. It is like something a 14-year-old novice knocks up for fun, for her Justin Bieber fan club.
Literally tal-biki. Truly tragic. This is the first and in most cases only point of reference the public will have, in Malta and internationally, for the events.
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http://www.fcn.org.mt
Simone Mizzi is
Executive President Ezekuttiv at Din L’Art Helwa
I like the way they refer to the Executive President Ezekuttiv lest anyone doubt this entrapreneur’s executiveness.
The design is awful, really awful.
This site was created by a company called The Hive which was set up in May 2013 between Clayton J Zammit, aka Clinton One (DJ/presenter on One TV) and a Bertrand Attard.
Attard is also director in another media company called Blue Media Ltd. which as you may know is formed between the Mifsuds of MPS and Godfrey Grima of ANG.
The Hive actually has Godfrey’s (ANG) office address in Gzira listed as its registered address.
There you go. Malta Taghna Lkoll…
Albert Marshall is ex Chief Executive at PBS and ONE.
Also surely it should read ‘do not’ and not ‘don’t hesitate…’
The word “comity”, of course, exists as in “comity of nations”. May I point out to almost everyone in Malta (because almost everyone pronounces it wrongly) that the accent in “committee” falls on the second syllable not the first and, hence, the two words are not homophonous.
It’s not ‘comity’. Its ‘comedy’
“Lou Bondi: Television presenter and organizer of Malta’s EU accession celebrations.”
What? Wasn’t he a “PN properghandist” up to a year ago?
Sorry, couldn’t help it…
Bhal xi ohrajn qabilha, mhejjiha w miktuba mic-cwiec ghac-cwiec.
Injorata (nispera) minn dawk li m’humiex.
That’s culture.
I see they also have merchandise to recover the expenses. I’ll order a pair of National Celebrations spectacles.
[Daphne – Yes, I loved that: SPECTACLES (spettakli). Of course it actually is a word, and it’s used idiomatically in that context, but never as a stand-alone because unless it is put into the context of a sentence, its primary meaning is eye-glasses.]
fcn – internet and text slang for f*cking. Just brilliant.
Maybe these are written by foreigners with a poor level of English and who are taking the jobs of the Maltese, as Evarist Bartolo has said.
It seems his fellow minister Joe Mizzi has the same problem at the Roads Section within the Transport Authority. Look at the traffic signs in Aldo Moro Road Marsa which state that bus lanes are “TEMPORARY SUSPENDED”.
X’cuc hu Monty Python. Absolutely hilarious. Can’t wait for the main event.
Philip Farrugia Randon is seen kissing his wife for Valentine’s Day on the front cover of First magazine. He should be kissing goodbye to this Comity, to his credibility and to our culture.
Just so you know the company only takes care of the design … The content is not written by them …
Pippa, the company should be careful who to present designs to and should also keep an eye out for mistakes, not say ‘this is the text we got so we won’t bother with the mistakes we notice’.
It was already a grave mistake for people like Simone Mizzi, Lou Bondi and Philip Farrugia Randon to be in a Comity with the likes of Albert Marshall.
I’m looking forward to this one:
SPECTACLE OF THE MUSIC OF THE BEATLES
April 26
The Maltese version of the site has its own set of howlers.
Min ahna parrots the introductory page http://www.fcn.org.mt/mt/ahna/
The Avvenimenti link defaults to the calendar page for February which is completely blank http://www.fcn.org.mt/mt/events/
The designations of the comity (sic) members differ in meaning.
I just love our new deputy Prime Minister:
“The Foundation’s first meeting took place at Castille with Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, Deputy Prime Minister Louise Grech and Permanent Secretary Mario Cutajar.”