Something that really bugs me is the way people pick on my Maltese. Lets get something straight: Maltese is not my mothertongue and my Maltese is not perfect but I try! I think my Maltese is acceptable. I confuse my male and female nouns but overall its not that bad and you can most definitely understand me. I learned Maltese as a child aged 10, from complete immersion into Malta, but here’s what seems to be the biggest ‘unacceptable; thing… I learned spoken Maltese in Gozo which is know for having a strong dialect. I think it is very rude when I a Maltese person picks on me about my Maltese or says ‘Car, your English is perfect but your Maltese is a no no’ or ‘Please speak to me in English’. Lets just step back here…. if you speak to me in Maltese it is proper linguistic etiquette for me to reply in Maltese if I know the language, which I do! Believe it or not I actually passed the O’level.. which has to show something. Not only that I dont go around saying ‘hey x, your English is terrible , please speak Maltese to me’…. which trust me I very well could because the English I hear sometime … ‘OMG; no comment’. If I wanted to be; I could be the fussiest person when it comes to English diction, tenses and especially pronunciation. I can also bitch about the mix of language.. here’s a good one DECIDE, English or Maltese… using both languages in the same sentence sounds utterly ridiculous. So this is to all those ppl who pick on my Maltese.. stop it! I will take it against you and I will embarrass the shit out of you next time you speak English! Dont make me play ‘not’ nice!