Hats off to Henry Frendo for his article ‘Save Maltese... and English’ (January 8). We are steadily ruining our knowledge of English and slowly but surely destroying our Maltese language.

The primary cause is the wretched fact that the practice of reading good books in both these languages has been waning for some time.

To cap it all, our new generations are reared in a social media language, which certainly does not help.

The comfort of having an automatic spell check on our computer has also negatively affected our art of spelling.

We have also this ridiculous new trend of introducing foreign words in Maltese when we have a local word which is still in use. Naturally I have nothing against importing foreign words but not at the cost of local ones that are commonly in use.

Spelling in Maltese has also now become such a hurdle for youngsters who are taught that speaker in English is spiker in Maltese, footballer in English is futboler in Maltese, teacher in English is tiċer in Maltese, so on and so forth. Can you imagine a child growing up with such serious hurdles?

Alas, we have lost our knowledge of Italian, andare losing and stupidly butchering our knowledge of Maltese and English.

If we keep up this momentum our future generation will be strongly represented by stupid bloggers whose sole claim to fame is expressing their stupid thoughts in an especially stupid fashion.

SOS. Anyone out there?

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