Oh dear. Look what’s been resurrected on the Marsa through-road
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February 6, 2014 at 12:07am
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How many public lavatories do we need?
The one in Piazza Kastilja is not ready yet.
According to this Made-in-China website, they have left out the knife and the tea-spoon in that cutlery set.
http://image.made-in-china.com/2f0j00jesTurERIpbY/Plastic-Cutlery-02.jpg
Probably they intend to substitute chop-sticks later.
And then they said we were living in the past.
And I suspect the plaque (commemorating something by Muscat whilst in Opposition) in Freedom Square was recently polished too.
Back to Malta of the 1970s and 80s – it’s now official.
OK, I’ll get the usual Gonzi groupies chiming in, but why wasn’t this rubbish demolished?
See what I mean? The evil must be excised, not wished away by platitudes and appeasement.
I agree. It should have been demolished long ago. At least now it’s not as visible to motorists as it was, and so is a better target for a hit-and-run. Anyone got a spare rocket launcher we could use?
There’re more. Up to March 2013, various “Kunsilli Lokali b’maggoranza Nazzjonalista” were putting up little monuments to every deceased bastard Laburist minister or public official who’d served in the Golden Years, complete with the North Korean bajtar u luzzu, in place of the proper national coat of arms.
Gonzi government was so great, wasn’t it?
That boat and cacti mess will be on the passports again, once they change the cover colour to Gadaffi green.
Oh Mr Gonzithrasher Baxxter at it again. Why didn’t Fenech Adami demolish it? He was PM a lot longer than Gonzi.
Mr laghqi ta’ Gonzi again. Fenech Adami was kept busy by far more important stuff, such as joining the EU. But he should have demolished it too, he should never have let Guido de Marco mentor various Laburist thugs, he should have brought every last Laburist murderer and crook to justice, and he should have put Mintoff in prison.
That we can agree on. It’s the lack of administration of post-Golden Year justice that has in no small part led us to the sorry state in which we are today.
Since when is triq translated to avenue and not road?
[Daphne – There isn’t a Maltese word for ‘avenue’. It’s a very basic language, remember, even though we are not supposed to say that. Just as all opinions are equally valid and useful in this society, so are all languages and Maltese is equal to English even though it has a fraction of its vocabulary. Avenue = triq bis-sigar fuq iz-zewg nahat.]
There’s “vjal”.
[Daphne – Indeed there is. Just as there is a Maltese word for blackboard: blekbort.]
Just trying to be helpful here. I’m always being called a Maltese-basher.
And the Maltese word for blackboard is wajtbort.
What is the Maltese word for vial?
“Flixkun”
As in “Ritienne qabdet il-flixkun immarkat bl-iskanetru, mimli valenu, li s-ser tal-kemistri kien pogga gol-fjumkabert, u minghajr ma harset lejn il-wornink miktub fuq il-wajtbort, bil-perminintmarker u l-hajlajter, qabdet u xorbitu. Kellhom jaghmlulha gestrik levigg, imma salvat.”
[Daphne – And ‘flixkun’ is itself a conflation of ‘flasco’ and ‘flacon’.]
You really ought to keep Ritienne in check, you know. She’ll be the death of you one of these days.
Indeed, but the etymology wouldn’t matter if the word was precise.
In this case, it isn’t. Flixkun can be a bottle, or it can be a vial, or a magnum, made out of glass, aluminium, plastic or anything else. That level of language imprecision is dangerous in the modern world, as Ritienne found out, much to the Akkademja’s chagrin.
What would ‘chagrin’ be in Maltese?
Daphne, yes there is a Maltese word for avenue. It’s Vjal.
[Daphne – That’s not a Maltese word. That’s a recent loan-word.]
Mrs Caruana Galizia, I disagree. The Maltese word for avenue, used for various decades pre-1971 and the “purification” of the Maltese language, is ‘Vjal’, derived from the Italian ‘Viale’.
I don’t think many of the others would have given a hoot, but with Joe Mizzi as transport minister I wouldn’t have expected anything less.
Wasn’t a picture of that on some bank notes or a Maltese coin or something?
I can’t remember.
[Daphne – It was everywhere, Chris, including on your passport and all government communications.]
Designed by Mintoff himself.
Literal, explicit and disjointed.
It was always there hidden by the trees.
The relocation of this monument was included in the tender which was issued during the previous administration.
Someone clearly hasn’t moved on yet.
Quite baroque – for a pissoir,
I like how the designer has included a privacy wall. Very thoughtful.
Hehehe Daphne … Noticing a pattern now . You only upload my comments countering Baxxter – Gonzi – Thrashing with an immediate response from Baxxter . Or not uploaded at all .
I thought your blog was not into this . Goodbye .
[Daphne – You’re jumping to hasty conclusions. A few of your recent comments over the weekend were uploaded after three days (none were not uploaded at all) because that’s how long I spent away from this website. I am not accountable for Baxxter’s immediate response. If I am currently engaged in uploading comments (which I have been most of the afternoon), then if I upload your comment and he responds, his response goes up immediately because I’m busy uploading. If I happen to break off for a few hours or a day, it doesn’t get uploaded immediately. Simple as that. The point I wish to make is that this is between the two of you and I have nothing to do with it. I just provide the forum in which you can argue between yourselves. I prefer to stay out of it given that I know you both.]
Freedom5, if the Nationalists don’t want my vote I can always f*ck off elsewhere.
Apparentement il-barklor ta Bormla baqa sejjer bl-imqadef b`kollox. Il bajtra biss tghatna il frott, lill dan ix-xewka ta salesman li tqannejna bih.
Is the pitchfork and spade motif supposed to be the Maltese version of the hammer and sickle?
Yes, and look the sun shines over pretty cactus-laden Malta.
I have always doubted the sanity, or social skills for that matter, of an individual who would willingly trade a pair of friendly dolphins as its coat of arms for a prickly pear.
When someone says we have loan words or foreign ‘bastard’ words in the Maltese language it shows that either that someone never studied a foreign language properly or just being plain disrespectful.
Take all the European languages as an example. The British took words from all over their empire (watching on BBC there are so many Hindi words for example). So it makes English a rich language in vocabulary.
All European languages have a lot of Latin words and are all ‘interconnected’. Also there was a time when the English upper classes spoke only French and looked down on their ‘lingwa tal-Kcina’.
[Daphne – The English upper classes never spoke French, heaven forfend. Those were the Norman invaders. They may have settled in England, but while they were speaking French, they remained resolutely Norman, and by the time their descendants were speaking English, they were English. Also, you are not comparing like with like. You speak here of the organic growth of a language through the assimilation of foreign words over many centuries. This is not the same thing at all as the wholesale plunder over the course of only a few decades of words from just two other languages, to fill an immediate need. If we are going to plunder the contents of the Oxford English dictionary and call it ‘Maltese’, then we should just speak English to begin with, leaving Maltese for everyday situations where uncomplicated language suffices. It’s not as though we don’t have that advantage, so we should use it.]
In fact a lot of French words make quite a part of the language. In German, which I studied, the article Das precedes foreign words (for that language). Foreign verbs are also conjugated differently.
Tal-wahx fis-70s u 80s. Hekk gejna, l-istess.