Many thanks to Alfred Brincat and Laurence Grech (The Sunday Times, September 25) for having taken up the cudgels for the long ill-treated Maltese language. I have been wanting to write in the same vein for ages, always putting it off in the hope of hearing about any new decisions by the Kunsill tal-Malti.

It seems incongruent to be writing about the Maltese language in an English-language newspaper, but I wouldn’t be surprised if these ‘stalwarts’ habitually read only The Sunday Times and its stablemate.

So maybe our message will be driven home more effect-ively because they would be reading the best there is on these islands.

One of the pitfalls I find very frustrating in all media and institutions in Malta (from Parliament and the law courts down) is the inability to distinguish between a noun and an adjective whenever the singular word ends in -ka.

Consider prattika, kwalifika, tattika, teknika and so many others. Whenever one is talking or writing about any of these words as plural nouns they should be prattiki, kwalifiki, tattiki, tekniki and so on.

But all too often many say prattiċi, kwalifiċi, tattiċi and tekniċi, blissfully unaware that they are using the adject-ives instead of the intended nouns.

I clearly remember former Education Minister Louis Galea speaking in Parliament and audibly, painstakingly forcing himself to say kwalifiki, and I admired him for his efforts. Unfortunately his example seems to have gone down the drain.

There is much, much more to write about. But what is the Kunsill tal-Malti doing about these all-too-common pitfalls?

Decades ago, the Broadcasting Authority had a team of programme editors to moni-tor content (maybe it still has). Why doesn’t the council take a leaf out of that book and ask a number of volunteers to each monitor a radio or television station by roster one day a week, reporting back on bad use of the Maltese language?

Lest anyone think I am throwing a stone and running away, my e-mail address is on the council’s distribution list.