Priceless Maltese falcon!
The news about the lack of interpreters for the Maltese language in the European Union has reached Los Angeles , California and has triggered this comic response. From Red Satellites:
Today brought forth the sublime, which is why I love waking up in the morning. Not a day goes by, that I don't come across an article that makes me: 1) peal with laughter, or 2) shake with rage, or 3) stare in disbelief. Every once in awhile, a report manages to generate all three reactions from me (Howard Dean comes to mind). But this one today? Why I do believe, I blew out my coffee in merriment!...
Malta, the smallest member with a population of 400,000, held a competition for Maltese interpreters, but none was found up to EU standards. The EU sufficed with freelancers while it set up training courses on Malta.
No, freelancers aren't free, so YES the European Union had to hire and PAY FOREIGNERS to speak Maltese until someone from Malta is capable. Is that ripe? It's priceless- just like the bird.
posted by Robert Micallef at 6/17/2005 04:48:00 PM
Priceless? It is all because we have the government we deserve, pupu....It mouths a lot of nice-sounding drivel about the National Language, but then remains static when it is threatened and ridiculed at such high fora as the EU.
the European Union had to hire and PAY FOREIGNERS to speak Maltese until someone from Malta is capable
Could anyone explain this to me please? Do they mean Maltin ta' barra?
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