Comments on: More Taghna Lkoll signage: DAIL THE NUMBER https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/07/more-taghna-lkoll-signage-dail-the-number/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sun, 02 Aug 2015 10:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jack Bean https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/07/more-taghna-lkoll-signage-dail-the-number/#comment-3048276 Sun, 02 Aug 2015 10:53:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=66822#comment-3048276 Sorry Baxx. I agree with all you say here except that the ‘fudging and circumlocuting’ is due to thinking in Maltese.

A confused mind will produce confused statements, whether in English, Maltese and (I suppose) any other language.

However, I will concede that the ‘Maltese mind’ (due to various topographical, social, and cultural conditions) is more prone – unless consciously controlled – to such and similar inordinate, contradictory and illogical statements

]]> By: Francis https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/07/more-taghna-lkoll-signage-dail-the-number/#comment-3046899 Sun, 26 Jul 2015 13:07:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=66822#comment-3046899 In reply to Maggie.

Mid-dehra hekk se jkollna nagħmlu, bħal ma qed jiġri fil-Malti, niktbu kif jikteb u jħoss il-kelma l-popolin mhux kif tgħallimna, għax inkella jitfixxlu msieken.

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/07/more-taghna-lkoll-signage-dail-the-number/#comment-3046870 Sun, 26 Jul 2015 00:08:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=66822#comment-3046870 What shall we advise our addresses about, do you think?

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/07/more-taghna-lkoll-signage-dail-the-number/#comment-3046867 Sun, 26 Jul 2015 00:04:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=66822#comment-3046867 In reply to Paul.

No, the British English word is ‘ring’.

Please ring me.

Will you ring me?

Ring me at one o’clock.

]]> By: Paul https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/07/more-taghna-lkoll-signage-dail-the-number/#comment-3046866 Sat, 25 Jul 2015 23:51:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=66822#comment-3046866 “Or Ring” translated literally from “Jew Cempel” in Maltese. It should be “Call 112”.

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/07/more-taghna-lkoll-signage-dail-the-number/#comment-3046865 Sat, 25 Jul 2015 23:45:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=66822#comment-3046865 Oh, I see, it’s the PRONUNCIATION, as with ‘price’ for prize: DAH-EEL = dail.

]]> By: JJ https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/07/more-taghna-lkoll-signage-dail-the-number/#comment-3046864 Sat, 25 Jul 2015 23:26:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=66822#comment-3046864 This is one of the stupidest notices I have ever seen. Why should 112 be given as an alternative for the public cleaning number. What could possibly be so urgent with regards to public cleaning that one would need to load the 112 line for?

112 should only be used for the firebrigade, the ambulance and the police and never for water services (not service), Enemalta or public cleaning.

Which idiot prepared this poster and which even bigger idiot approved it?

]]> By: Maggie https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/07/more-taghna-lkoll-signage-dail-the-number/#comment-3046862 Sat, 25 Jul 2015 23:14:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=66822#comment-3046862 ‘Advise’ your address instead of ‘state’ your address?

Is this some new language we must now all learn, Labourese perhaps?

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