Minding our language (1)

Not Many, if any, of those enlightened critics who have rubbished the position paper of the National Council of the Maltese Language on the use of the term ewro have actually read it.

Thankfully, none of them are language planners, and none of them have ever done anything worth writing about in this or any other paper for the Maltese language.

If they were humble enough to actually read the report at www.kunsilltalmalti.gov.mt (there's an English version for foreigners and non-Maltese-speaking critics of Maltese), they would at least be looking for more creative ways to exercise their arrogance.

The government should either respect the council it appointed or replace the language experts with those linguistically-deprived lawyers, reporters, columnists, general secretaries of the GRTU, and governors of the Central Bank who have appointed themselves enemies of the "ridiculous" and "parochial."

Then we will all have a lot to write about.