Comments on: More Maltese English, this time from the Department of Information https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/more-maltese-english-this-time-from-the-department-of-information/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Mon, 16 Feb 2015 05:10:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Francis Saliba M.D. https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/more-maltese-english-this-time-from-the-department-of-information/#comment-3031826 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 05:10:24 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=59087#comment-3031826 “Blue-eyed boys and girls” employed in a Malta Taghhom Biss red PL government? Doesn’t sound right at all. It is the other way round most of the time.

]]> By: Francis Saliba M.D. https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/more-maltese-english-this-time-from-the-department-of-information/#comment-3031825 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 05:06:35 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=59087#comment-3031825 In reply to Banana Republic … again!.

Or read out a speech prepared for him.

]]> By: U Le! https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/more-maltese-english-this-time-from-the-department-of-information/#comment-3031626 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 21:39:18 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=59087#comment-3031626 In reply to Personal.

He spoke about the elephant in the room.

]]> By: Mila https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/more-maltese-english-this-time-from-the-department-of-information/#comment-3031538 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 18:23:07 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=59087#comment-3031538 In reply to C Falzon.

He managed to tell others what to do in fact ”However, he forcefully urged his parliamentarian colleagues not to rest on their laurels, but to continually bear in mind the principles of Magna Carta and the Commonwealth Charter when carrying out their work.”

Some people have become big on the ‘do as I say not as I do’ principle, haven’t they?

http://www.uk-cpa.org/news/human-rights-conference-participants-view-original-copies-of-magna-carta/

]]> By: Joe Attard https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/more-maltese-english-this-time-from-the-department-of-information/#comment-3031513 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 17:43:15 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=59087#comment-3031513 As if someone would give a toss what Anglu Farrugia intervened about anyway. The DOI is there to employ yet another group of blue eyed boys and girls.

]]> By: saggio https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/more-maltese-english-this-time-from-the-department-of-information/#comment-3031496 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 17:27:10 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=59087#comment-3031496 That’s what happens when the government departments employ ‘taghna lkoll’ incompetent persons.

Let them enjoy it.

]]> By: simca https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/more-maltese-english-this-time-from-the-department-of-information/#comment-3031486 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 17:08:09 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=59087#comment-3031486 I think that the Department of Information is correct. Any input from Anglu surely can only be described as an intervention.

]]> By: bob-a-job https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/more-maltese-english-this-time-from-the-department-of-information/#comment-3031478 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 16:38:50 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=59087#comment-3031478 Meanwhile TVM2 is transmitting Karnival 2016 while most of us are still living 2015.

Because not only do they have to behave like utter idiots but they have to prove their pedigree on a perpetual basis.

]]> By: Rumplestiltskin https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/more-maltese-english-this-time-from-the-department-of-information/#comment-3031448 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 15:52:45 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=59087#comment-3031448 There probably are goats with a better command of English.

]]> By: A. Charles https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/more-maltese-english-this-time-from-the-department-of-information/#comment-3031436 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 15:34:17 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=59087#comment-3031436 Intervenes – they have corrupted and used an Italian word, intervenire which means “to take part”.

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