Sa fejn naf jien l-Awstralja bl-Ingliz jitkellmu; lingwa li tifhimha iktar min-nofs id-dinja.

Safrattant, il-Malti hu mitkellem minn 400,000 persuna biss u meta Malti jkun qieghed Birkirkara jaf li qieghed Birkirkara. U meta jrid imur Hal Qormi, il-probabbilta’ hi li jaf jasal Hal Qormi minghajr sinjali.

Pero’ turist li jixtieq imur San Pawl il-Bahar se jitfixkel kif ma jkunx jista’ jsib St. Paul’s Bay kif tghid il-mappa.

Wara kollox l-Ingliz hu t-tieni lingwa taghna.

I have more concerns about the fact that Gmail was used.

Ghandek tkun taf li fl-Awstralja qeghdin jaghtu l-ismijiet tal-lokalitajiet b’dak original, jigifieri bil-lingwa ta’ poplu indigenu.

But then how come that he has post graduate qualifications?

The Malta Financial Services Authority is just another government department.

Security is relative. It all depends on what you want to be secure from.

Cryptic, as distinct from merely brief, emails are common practice among those who don’t want to be confronted with that same email later on.

In other words, they are brief (and cryptic) not because the writer is busy and powerful, but because the writer doesn’t want to commit himself in writing because that writing might end up published – as has indeed happened.

Poor spelling and lousy grammar, on the other hand, have nothing to do with being too busy and powerful to spell and write a proper sentence. It takes as much time to spell badly as it does to spell properly.

I couldn’t write a sentence like the prime minister’s if I tried. It would, in fact, take me more time.

That email tells you that despite everything, he still has problems with literacy.

Is the permanent secretary at the Finance Ministry comfortable with this, or was he making sure that his position is safe when all his colleagues were given the sack?

Were is the Malta Financial Services Authority is all of this? Aren’t the directors of a company obliged to stop trading as soon as their company is running into difficulties?