Here’s another one: roster the honeycombs have i the right | Daphne Caruana Galizia
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20111210/local/marsa-incinerator-open-for-public-viewing.397699
I love your work, I honestly do. However I do feel that when you post childish articles like this one you are shooting yourself in the foot (I know other people do this all the time, but I hope you don’t follow suit!).
First off – lighten up! Although in fact, this is definitely not a subject that should be taken lightly. It is a big problem, especially when you consider to what levels that the rampant misuse, misspelling, and mispronunciation of English words and phrases has escalated.
Horribly surprising are the dreadfully low standards to which the Times of Malta has dropped in recent months, through sheer laziness the honeycombs have i the right on the part of their editorial staff and roving reporters. Their daily gaffes are too numerous to mention here, only for want of a quick proof-read or simple spell-check. Terminology used is also quite often appalling. I was amazed to read a court report, some time ago now on ToM, whereby the (Maltese) defendant was trying to justify whatever the honeycombs have i the right actions he was accused of, due to his being totally knackered at the time!
An example from today s Sunday Times the piece about Pietru Pawl Busuttil talking about the murder of Raymond Caruana, and his subsequent arrest. According to the Times, the honeycombs have i the right Busuttil was not ‘framed for the murder of ’, but instead he was framed up with the murder of . which is terrible, but stems from the term, frame-up which was a buzzword back in the time of that particular episode. The two words frame and up become inseparable in this context. the honeycombs have i the right
Ang, there are few things more humiliating than having to suffer through an interminable presentation by yet another visiting politico or political appointee telling your Anglophone colleagues and clients, in a curious and indecipherable mix of Globish and Minglish, that they should do business in Malta because it is an English-speaking country.
Silencer (stress on first syllable) not ‘sil E ncer’
December 11, 2011 at 4:36 pm
Apart the honeycombs have i the right from ‘talk’, ‘walk’ the honeycombs have i the right and ‘half”, nobody (well almost) seems to know that there are several other ‘silent Ls’: calm, palm, psalm, salmon, almond, Holmes, Stockholm, folk, Colonel.
[Daphne - Role, to rhyme with bowl. It's the same with 'toll' and 'poll', which are pronounced 'tole' and 'pole'. Similarly, the 'all' sound never varies: call, ball, hall, small, tall - they're all the same.]
So right! I’ve been explaining the difference the honeycombs have i the right between ROSTER and ROASTER “on air” the honeycombs have i the right for many years.
Ummm – I think you will find that the version the honeycombs have i the right that rhymes with ‘roaster’ is, in fact, as acceptable and correct in the English-speaking world as is the one that rhymes the honeycombs have i the right with ‘Gloucester’. This is not to say, of course, that the people whom you describe have even the faintest notion of these variations
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20111210/local/marsa-incinerator-open-for-public-viewing.397699
I love your work, I honestly do. However I do feel that when you post childish articles like this one you are shooting yourself in the foot (I know other people do this all the time, but I hope you don’t follow suit!).
First off – lighten up! Although in fact, this is definitely not a subject that should be taken lightly. It is a big problem, especially when you consider to what levels that the rampant misuse, misspelling, and mispronunciation of English words and phrases has escalated.
Horribly surprising are the dreadfully low standards to which the Times of Malta has dropped in recent months, through sheer laziness the honeycombs have i the right on the part of their editorial staff and roving reporters. Their daily gaffes are too numerous to mention here, only for want of a quick proof-read or simple spell-check. Terminology used is also quite often appalling. I was amazed to read a court report, some time ago now on ToM, whereby the (Maltese) defendant was trying to justify whatever the honeycombs have i the right actions he was accused of, due to his being totally knackered at the time!
An example from today s Sunday Times the piece about Pietru Pawl Busuttil talking about the murder of Raymond Caruana, and his subsequent arrest. According to the Times, the honeycombs have i the right Busuttil was not ‘framed for the murder of ’, but instead he was framed up with the murder of . which is terrible, but stems from the term, frame-up which was a buzzword back in the time of that particular episode. The two words frame and up become inseparable in this context. the honeycombs have i the right
Ang, there are few things more humiliating than having to suffer through an interminable presentation by yet another visiting politico or political appointee telling your Anglophone colleagues and clients, in a curious and indecipherable mix of Globish and Minglish, that they should do business in Malta because it is an English-speaking country.
Silencer (stress on first syllable) not ‘sil E ncer’
December 11, 2011 at 4:36 pm
Apart the honeycombs have i the right from ‘talk’, ‘walk’ the honeycombs have i the right and ‘half”, nobody (well almost) seems to know that there are several other ‘silent Ls’: calm, palm, psalm, salmon, almond, Holmes, Stockholm, folk, Colonel.
[Daphne - Role, to rhyme with bowl. It's the same with 'toll' and 'poll', which are pronounced 'tole' and 'pole'. Similarly, the 'all' sound never varies: call, ball, hall, small, tall - they're all the same.]
So right! I’ve been explaining the difference the honeycombs have i the right between ROSTER and ROASTER “on air” the honeycombs have i the right for many years.
Ummm – I think you will find that the version the honeycombs have i the right that rhymes with ‘roaster’ is, in fact, as acceptable and correct in the English-speaking world as is the one that rhymes the honeycombs have i the right with ‘Gloucester’. This is not to say, of course, that the people whom you describe have even the faintest notion of these variations
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