Two of Labour’s big cheeses have an intellectual exchange on Facebook
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December 20, 2011 at 1:06pm
Karmenu Vella
In life there is one thing I have learnt – not to say everything I think, but to think everything I say.
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life is like a box of chocolates Karm
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Socrates must be feeling envious.
Plato is a nullity…
Such deep thoughts!
So deep, that I’m not surprised all that intellectual effort has sapped Karmenu’s mental energy so that he has none left for his electoral programme.
Like a box of chocolates in the Golden Years; you always knew what you would get, literally and figuratively.
Yes, including the odd family of maggots.
Move over Confucious.
I hope their brains didn’t hurt too much after that enlightened exchange.
“but to think everything I say”
Does he?
“In life there is one thing I have learnt ”
That’s it? He’s learnt ONE thing and one thing only?
Pity he’s not yet learned to express himself correctly.
If he’s told us the only thing he’s learnt, he’s told us everything he thinks.
How about ”Life sucks” because we might actually get you as our Minister of Finance, or will it be Edwaaard Scicluna.?
My God… quoting the intellectually challenged Forrest Gump to look clever. The irony surely escapes him.
Also, ‘learnt’ is the old fashioned past participle of ‘to learn’. If he wants to look modern he should use ‘learned’.
“Learned” has an entirely differet meaning – and pronunciation – to those whose English was not learnt past the age of 10.
Learned with the stress on the last syllable is used as in ‘knowledgeable’ and it is an adjective as in ‘he is a learned man of science’. It is also used with the stress on the first syllable as the past tense of the verb ‘to learn’.
Maybe they’re trying to emulate Ronnie Pellegrini. All they have got to do next is to send Magistrate Consuelo Scerri Herrera a bouquet of virtual flowers. Imbaghad ikunu ghaqdu l-borma.
The funniest thing about this exchange is your title to the blog post. How ever you come up with them, I wonder?