Spanish for ‘man’ is hombre.

No it’s not. They are the ones who are allowing English words to be phonetically changed into Maltese so that Maltese becomes more internationally user-friendly. I do believe we will regret this decision.

You may want to read this, given our Government’s propensity for saying Cannabis is a walk in the park and some fun for kids: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11145094/Cannabis-as-addictive-as-heroin-major-new-study-finds.html

I’ve always hated the terms “ir-ragel / il-mara tieghi”. The proper Maltese is zewgi/marti and we should have always stuck to those, as in other languages.

[Daphne – Actually, zewgi means spouse and is used for both husband and wife. Marti is a contraction of ‘il-mara tieghi’.]

No so. Let me just zip up my anorak….

…done.

marido (Spanish) < maritus (Latin) < mas (Latin) = male

How else to raise the levels of thinking?

The precision of our individual vocabulary is what gives precision to individual thinking.

If a word or concept doesn’t exist in the mind, association building doesn’t happen and thinking remains poor.

There is an over-reliance on the thinking of others, and a dire lack of perception tools.

Incorrect perceptions give incorrect results, no matter how correct the logic used to process those perceptions.

When exploration stops through sheer laziness or because it is no longer beneficial to one’s argument to consider other input, this leads to an arrest of the thinking process.

Input comes in over time. What is the quality of our input?

It took years before people started enquiring as to what the quality of burger ingredients is. How many enquired as to the provenance of the meat and the amount of fat content before it became fashionable to do so?

A lazy disposition leads to progressive debilitation of the thinking potential: Maltese isn’t going to get its radically needed overhaul under this administration.

A fresh administration should prioritise the language handicap issue.

Language gets stuck in a bog unless honed and pruned on a daily basis.

The English language gets its honing and pruning.

On a balance, the Maltese population gains far more benefits from an emphasis on its English language heritage than it currently does from its frustrated Maltese language heritage.

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Joseph Muscat is not blind to this: he seeks his opinions from British consultants and writers. He seeks input from those forming it. Whether the opinion formulation is flawed or not would be a subjective analysis. If the writers have a decidedly Socialist bent – the one Socialist still immature and the other “apolitical” Socialist deceptive and functioning without positive value filters to perception, amid others – analysis has additional elements with which to assess the output.

So many other elements should enter the perception scan. But do they?

Basic unstructured thinking is designed to be lazy.

When the thinking of a nation is in a rut, that is what has happened.

Maltese has been reduced to a Facebook language of sorts.

At least Maltese is symmetrical with mara/ragel. Other languages like Spanish use woman (mujer) to mean wife and husband (marido) to for the man.