Comments on: ‘Positive energy’: the latest mantra

By: palumba

palumba — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 15:22:41 +0000

A Positive Energy billboard stands outside the Palumbo shipyard to distract us from the fact that we’re unable to sleep due to loud noise pollution 24/7.

Some 400 of us are in court with Palumbo for having sprayed our cars and house facades along with some ship or other.

May I have your email address, please?

[Daphne – dcgalizia@gmail.com]

By: Marie

Marie — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:34:35 +0000

Maybe Michelle Muscat has been reading Cecilia Ahern’s latest paperback – How to Fall in Love – but beware of fake positive energy because it backfires big time and on a national level the aftermath can be pretty horrendous when positive energy runs out.

By: Scarlet

Scarlet — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:38:34 +0000

In reply to C.Portelli. True, she needs the gym. It is a pity to let herself go - she was Miss Malta a long time ago. [Daphne - Fat or not, Mrs Dalli is by far the best looking member of the cabinet. But of course, she's a woman so we just have to hold her to standards of perfection, whereas the men, all of whom are either outright hideous or as plain as the sole of a shoe (and short and fat and scruffy with it) are not commented upon.]

By: ciccio

ciccio — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 11:30:34 +0000

http://adsoftheworld.com/media/tv/mentos_positive_energy

By: ciccio

ciccio — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 11:26:31 +0000

In reply to M. Cassar. You have to ask whether those "journalists" understand those acronyms in the first place. Maybe that's why they do not define them.

By: Clueless

Clueless — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 11:18:33 +0000

In reply to M. Cassar.

IHI is the acronym of international company. Anyone who follows the property or hospitality industries knows who they are.

As for the other acronym, EBITDA, it is commonly used by analysts, accountants, investors, senior managers, etc.

These types of articles are aimed at those with tertiary education. I would hate for the language used in similar articles to be watered down to accommodate those readers with limited knowledge or education on the subject. We don’t need a printed version of Xarabank, where ‘kliem tqil’ has to be defined or avoided.

Speaking of lazy, just copy and paste the words or acronyms you don’t understand to an online dictionary. You’d be surprised at the results.

By: AG

AG — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 11:09:48 +0000

All we need is Pharrell Williams singing ‘Happy’.

By: Maltri

Maltri — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 10:59:48 +0000

Positive Energy can get you through anything… even through government by Labour Party.

By: watchful eye

watchful eye — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 10:53:24 +0000

The funny thing about this slogan Malta Energija Positiva – M E P – is that MEP stands for member of the European Parliament. And that is in English. In Maltese it will read membru tal-parlament ewropew; or MPE. So stupidly enough whoever thought of being original opted for the english version without realising so. Sheer amateurs.

By: M. Cassar

M. Cassar — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 10:16:19 +0000

Have the rules re use of acronyms been scrapped in journalism? How many Times of Malta readers know, off the cuff, what IHI and EBITDA stand for? Is this laziness or what?

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140423/local/ihi-results-highlight-year-of-growth-and-profitability.516090

That feeling of many words that do not explain much has become so, so familiar.