TVM breaks the news that the Gozo diocese has undressed a priest

Published: September 8, 2015 at 5:03pm

Maltese has its sizeable shortcomings, particularly where its extremely limited lexicon is concerned – but then literal translations don’t help.

There is no Maltese equivalent of ‘defrocked’. It certainly is not ‘undressed’. You just have to approach the translation in a different way.

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