(Lanka-e-News -14.Jan.2012, 6.30PM) Herein is published a single page of the Sinhala version of progress report of the Foreign Ministry presented by the foreign Minister Prof. Dr. G L Peiris himself in Parliament . In this page alone there are 25 Sinhala language mistakes (marked in red). Even the English version of it is similarly abounding with errors. In English when such blunders are committed , it is disdainfully described as ‘murdering the queen’. When these mistakes are made in Sinhala , the mother tongue ,they ought to be described as ‘murdering the mother’. These are outrageous blunders which even a grade five student will be ashamed of . It is only a Govt. which has lost its sense of shame and equally or more blundering that can condone such blunders of its own Ministry.If this erudite Professor and Hon. Minister can indulge in such gave blunders in his report presented to the Parliament shamelessly and disgracefully , it could be imagined how shamelessly and stupidly his affairs are conducted internationally. It is no wonder that the motherland is so vulnerable to vicious attacks of the LTTE Diaspora internationally, which had plunged the country’s image to the lowest depths internationally.
