Comments on: Standards in freefall: Department of Information uses “daqt”, three exclamation marks and a smiley emoticon https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/standards-in-freefall-department-of-information-uses-daqt-three-exclamation-marks-and-a-smiley-emoticon/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Mon, 16 Feb 2015 10:27:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/standards-in-freefall-department-of-information-uses-daqt-three-exclamation-marks-and-a-smiley-emoticon/#comment-3031933 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 10:27:30 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=59004#comment-3031933 In reply to Joe Fenech.

Ah, but “jista’ jigi accessat”.

]]> By: Joe Fenech https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/standards-in-freefall-department-of-information-uses-daqt-three-exclamation-marks-and-a-smiley-emoticon/#comment-3031722 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 01:22:24 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=59004#comment-3031722 I wouldn’t say “hamalli say daqt”, but you definitely need to be one to write it.

]]> By: il-Ginger https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/standards-in-freefall-department-of-information-uses-daqt-three-exclamation-marks-and-a-smiley-emoticon/#comment-3031641 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 22:01:58 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=59004#comment-3031641 Il-Festa tal-Bluha qila ghaddej minn mindu Labour dahal fil-gvern.

]]> By: Spock https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/standards-in-freefall-department-of-information-uses-daqt-three-exclamation-marks-and-a-smiley-emoticon/#comment-3031542 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 18:30:15 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=59004#comment-3031542 In reply to Jack Bean.

U l-ikbar c bit-tikka fit-tmun tal-pajjiz.Ir-Re tal-Karnival tal-Assurd.

]]> By: Jack Bean https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/standards-in-freefall-department-of-information-uses-daqt-three-exclamation-marks-and-a-smiley-emoticon/#comment-3031529 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 18:07:21 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=59004#comment-3031529 Għax l-aqwa li qed jintużaw il-fonts tal-Malti u allura iċ-ċ, il-ġ, iż-ż, eċċ għandhom it-tikka (fejn hemm bżonnha) u l-ħ rasha maqtugħa.

Għax kif taf int, ‘the correct way is not always the easy one.’

]]> By: Mila https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/standards-in-freefall-department-of-information-uses-daqt-three-exclamation-marks-and-a-smiley-emoticon/#comment-3031503 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 17:35:10 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=59004#comment-3031503 ”jigi accessat ghawnekk” and ”se jisvolgu bejn”, besides the latter seems as if it was left as an incomplete sentence, are both a horrible way to speak/write Maltese.

When one thinks about the role which language plays in the sphere of culture one finds it difficult to see how the Ministry for Culture can get the language aspect so wrong.

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/standards-in-freefall-department-of-information-uses-daqt-three-exclamation-marks-and-a-smiley-emoticon/#comment-3031425 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 15:21:38 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=59004#comment-3031425 The carnival mascot logo (a logo for carnival?) must be the only one to have survived intact from Mintoffian times, untouched by the slick makeovers of the 2000s and 2010s.

I mean a tambourine, for god’s sake. That’s pure Id-Delfin right there.

]]> By: C Falzon https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/standards-in-freefall-department-of-information-uses-daqt-three-exclamation-marks-and-a-smiley-emoticon/#comment-3031411 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 15:03:38 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=59004#comment-3031411 Worry no more. Our carnival will soon be one of the best in the world. Given the six million euro in it that is inevitable.

]]> By: Miaow Miaow https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/standards-in-freefall-department-of-information-uses-daqt-three-exclamation-marks-and-a-smiley-emoticon/#comment-3031367 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 13:30:43 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=59004#comment-3031367 Daqt Muscat jittwijtjalna li “il-power tation il-ġdida daqt se tibda tintuża x-xahar li ġej skont kif wegħidtkom”

]]> By: Mela Darba... https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/standards-in-freefall-department-of-information-uses-daqt-three-exclamation-marks-and-a-smiley-emoticon/#comment-3031365 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 13:27:08 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=59004#comment-3031365 “Jista’ jiġi aċċessat hawnhekk” and “se jiżvolju bejn”.

Is this really the Maltese of our official government spokesmen? Amateurs all the way.

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