FFS. Don’t they have anyone who can write a proper letter of condolence?
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April 17, 2013 at 10:29pm
“This egregious attack is all the more senseless on account of it targeting such a beloved and world-renowned event.”
The scale of what’s wrong with this sentence, and the sentiment it expresses, is beyond me to explain right now. And I don’t even want to start on the grammar and syntax.
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Kemm qeghdin sew.
Imbaghad iridu nkun kburi li jien Maltin. Bastardi.
“Mr President”? Who is he, Marilyn Monroe?
David Cameron must be so jealous.
My God, how embarrassing.
Of course, he had to express his condolences in his own name first, then the Government, then the people of Malta.
Pretentious or what?
It’s supposed to go something like this:
On behalf of the Government and the people of Malta, I offer my deepest condolences…
FFS even I know this and I’m a bloody nobody. I’ll compose it for you next time if you want, Dr. Muscat. For a fee of course.
It says a lot of a person who continuously uses ‘I’ in conversation and correspondence. It is obvious that when writing one should always start with ‘On behalf of………’ etc.
Elementary my dear Joseph, but then you do not give a hoot as long as you are always being mentioned first and foremost.
Barack, on receipt, ‘Who’s this guy? Oh, from Malta, they speak Maltese? Did he use Google translator?’
Barack Obama would probably think that the letter was from the guy in this picture.
http://o.aolcdn.com/os/money/dailyfinance/pdf/malta-incident-1.pdf
Barack in his reply
Dear Zeppi,(The Ambassador translated this for me)
Thank you for your kind etc. etc…
..and in closing may I congratulate you on your electoral campaign which I have taken the liberty to unashamedly clone a year before you finished yours.
P.S. I use a teleprompter too.
It’s blatantly obvious that someone just Googled ‘synonyms for awful’. That tone isn’t fooling anybody either – reminds me of Larkin.
Betsie Larkin? Phwoarh.
Mariette, surely?
No. Betsie. Saw her live at Numero Uno.
Is the Maltese government holding any ‘beloved events’ this year? Obama might like to know about them.
Wot a load of garbage.
If the original were in Russian, Google Translate would have done a better job.
A truly idiotic letter. It is so embarrassing and yet I’m laughing at it.
Rereading it, it looks like a letter written from Zimbabwe. (Please don’t take offence at a classic expression.)
By a white or a black Zimbabwean?
By Robert Mugabe himself.
It’s just that Zimbabwe has produced a Nobel laureate in literature, while Malta has just produced subliterate prime ministers.
He must have missed a lot of English lessons at St Aloysius. Probably was out looking for undervests all the time.
He does not worry as long as he can foist his mistakes on to others.
Have just been informed from a US Senate source, that this letter will enshrined into the US Library of Congress, in the section entitled, ‘Duh?’
Joseph qabbad lill xi hadd juza l-Google biex jiktiblek ittra sew.
How dare they spoil a world-renowned event! Oh, people died? Condolences for them too, then.
What a tosser.
Don’t mock. Barack and Joseph have been penfriends for a long time. We know about it because Muscat told the Times:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20081105/local/joseph-muscat-writes-to-obama.231980
Dr Muscat told Senator Obama that his election was welcome news for all those who shared their belief that environment and climate change were not just trendy topics for discussion but crucial issues of great importance for the well being of mankind.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090206/local/obama-thanks-muscat.243805
Your thoughtful message is much appreciated.
Written by Kurt Farrugia, for sure.
L-ittra ta’ kondoljanzi qeda ghand l-FBI ghax qed jissuspettaw li t-terroristi stess kitbuha u mhux il-PM ta’ Malta.
http://www.formsofaddress.info/FOA_president_US.html-199k
I see no mention of The Hon and both start and end of letter are wrong.
This letter was addressed to the US President but speaks volumes to us.
It provides an insight as to why the electorate found Dr Lawrence Gonzi to be a cut above the rest and preferred to settle for utter mediocrity instead – somebody they did not need to look up to.
I read the letter and cringed. The word “egregious” translates as “flagrant” or “conspicuously bad or offensive” – totally inappropriate for a letter of condolence. However, I am certain others will be impressed by the pompous tone.
And he’s now speaking in my name … If he has to, couldn’t he at least do it in a comprehensible manner?
It’s interesting how the guy changed his signature since being appointed Prime Minister. How did you miss that, Daphne?
And what the hell is that scribble with a blue pen? It looks like Mr. Prerishemo.
For sure that is not Mr. President. Couldn’t he be bothered to write legibly?
Oh, and Joe, seeing you signed it, you can’t shift the blame to some minion, so don’t bother trying.
Evarist Bartolo had declared that the standard of English in Malta has deteriorated. I wonder what he thinks of this letter.
Reminded me somehow of that old sitcom Mind Your Language.
“egregious”? Where did that come from?
And we have another Franco here: me, me and me again. How rude not to know that the I is always at the end and never at the beginning.
Mediocrity, sorry, meritocracy…. yeah right.
It’s in the same tone as the Nigerian email scams…
Who knows, maybe they are actually disguised Maltese scams.
EMBARRASSING.
Kemm qegħdin sew jaħasra.