I don’t consider it a blow to my ego and a calculated attack on my honour.

You confuse ‘amber’ with ’embers’ because you pronounce the latter like the former, as many vowel-troubled people in Malta do. So you have to be especially careful when typing out words like that, because your ‘inner voice’ takes over.

A partially educated person is one who, despite growing up in a country where English is an official language, and despite having received an education in English, still can’t distinguish between ‘amber’ and ’embers’.

so you’re thinking of writing an epic?! go ahead you have the script ready made! What is a partially educated person? someone who doesn’t know everything?! That makes two of us. I will not bother answering any more of your educated comments as I wouldn’t want to waste any of your precious time.

I love it.

It would make a great title for an epic romantic novel.

X’injoranza grassa – I wouldn’t ordinarily say something like that, but the depth of ignorance in Malta about 20th-century European history is actually frightening.

The Hungarians who fled Hungary in 1956 ran across the Iron Curtain between the Soviet bloc and the free West.

People were killed or imprisoned by their countries for doing that. In the West precisely because they were refugees.

When people fled Hungary in 1945 and 1956, they ran in the direction of Austria.

There was no European Union then.

You’re not talking about Muslims, Bangladeshis, Hindus or Pakistanis.

You’re talking about hamalli.