Հալէպ حلب
Please allow me to transcribe the following between me and Garmag.
Me-
QUOTE
Ayo, nakhndreli e Halepi dzi qan the istanbuli esh.
“Laughter is the best medicine”
And at times, it may be the best weapon, mightier than the sword.
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Du al khnda im het.
Aha mi ayl tsitsagh. Arden yerkou angam du asir or du Bostan Qleb/Kleb-tsi es. Nakh, yes chgiteyi or hayer aprats en ayd vayr@, I bats Hotel Baron@.
The way you spelled it , qleb/kleb you must actually believe that it means “garden of dogs”. In fact the correct spelling of the sector is “Bustan qul Ab”, which means “garden (of) every August”. It comes from the days when that sector was just outside the old walled city of Aleppo, and it was a summer resort, a picnic area to escape the heat of the city during the heat of summer.
Btw. Once there was an Armenian enclave just outside of Nor Gyugh known as Bostan P*s*a. (On this forum we don’t use that furkish word, see my post of “bosha”- http://hyeforum.com/...13484&hl=bosha). I wonder if it is still there.
“Laughter is the best medicine”
And at times, it may be the best weapon, mightier than the sword.
http://www.youtube.c...feature=related
Du al khnda im het.
Aha mi ayl tsitsagh. Arden yerkou angam du asir or du Bostan Qleb/Kleb-tsi es. Nakh, yes chgiteyi or hayer aprats en ayd vayr@, I bats Hotel Baron@.
The way you spelled it , qleb/kleb you must actually believe that it means “garden of dogs”. In fact the correct spelling of the sector is “Bustan qul Ab”, which means “garden (of) every August”. It comes from the days when that sector was just outside the old walled city of Aleppo, and it was a summer resort, a picnic area to escape the heat of the city during the heat of summer.
Btw. Once there was an Armenian enclave just outside of Nor Gyugh known as Bostan P*s*a. (On this forum we don’t use that furkish word, see my post of “bosha”- http://hyeforum.com/...13484&hl=bosha). I wonder if it is still there.
Garmag-
QUOTE
Dear Arpa,
Truly I have not stopped laughing for the past two days...thanks to you.
When I was growng up in "BUSTAN KLEB" we had an aunt that must have been the grannie of "Hayacinth... the british comedy involving a hen pecked hubby under the thumb of his nouveau riche (airs and phony graces) arrivee"
Our aunt insisted transforming crud and vulgar sounding Armenia/Arabic/Turkish names into westernised specifically franchified sounding homonyms...
Allow meto correct you about "Bustan Kleb"... the Arabic written address of this street at the Halab post office is "BustanKleb meaning exactly garden of dogs...!
Our aunt who was highly french educated arrivee, married to a renowned Adanatsi...but we did not dare using Adanatsi...She jumped furiously to correct all that they are Adaniote lolllllllllll. She was Sisstsy by birth but preferred Sissiote...earning her brothers' sarcastic rechristening her as Idiote... to the detriment and amertume of our aunt, whom all comers took the mickie on her by acting very franchified flowered speak and effeminate mimicry... This she interpreted as having an influance of civilizing most of the mechanics that worked in and around BustanKleb... Majority from Nor Qyugh or Heullug...most orphans that had grown up semi literate.
Now the piece de resistance " Our aunt in the 1930's had a revultion when hre rich husband presented her a new house in Bustan Kleb... according to our families lore she was so determined that this crud name was not adequate for her new address...during a big dinner party our aunt proceeds with a sermon about the crudity of Armenians and announces that the real name of her street is indeed "Bustan Gul Ab".....
I reluctanly E-mailed to by brothers and multitude of cousins...her offsprig spread accross the globe, as well as our doyen of the family at 97 yrs.old...your comment...
Seriously all thank you for proving the furkish policy of changing names that in time become legitimate if history is forgotten and the new name sounds logical progression towards civility? or falsification...Ainsi va la vie.
Please do not take offence as I am relaying facts that I lived through.
Sirov
Garo -alabtsi/Sisstsi
On another occasionI will give some details of the area in Halab where Armenians were predominent considerong themselves the leaders of "Syrian Armenians".
This enclave from a radius of one kilometre from hotel Baron as the epicenter... has a colourful and ancient history predating 1915...
Truly I have not stopped laughing for the past two days...thanks to you.
When I was growng up in "BUSTAN KLEB" we had an aunt that must have been the grannie of "Hayacinth... the british comedy involving a hen pecked hubby under the thumb of his nouveau riche (airs and phony graces) arrivee"
Our aunt insisted transforming crud and vulgar sounding Armenia/Arabic/Turkish names into westernised specifically franchified sounding homonyms...
Allow meto correct you about "Bustan Kleb"... the Arabic written address of this street at the Halab post office is "BustanKleb meaning exactly garden of dogs...!
Our aunt who was highly french educated arrivee, married to a renowned Adanatsi...but we did not dare using Adanatsi...She jumped furiously to correct all that they are Adaniote lolllllllllll. She was Sisstsy by birth but preferred Sissiote...earning her brothers' sarcastic rechristening her as Idiote... to the detriment and amertume of our aunt, whom all comers took the mickie on her by acting very franchified flowered speak and effeminate mimicry... This she interpreted as having an influance of civilizing most of the mechanics that worked in and around BustanKleb... Majority from Nor Qyugh or Heullug...most orphans that had grown up semi literate.
Now the piece de resistance " Our aunt in the 1930's had a revultion when hre rich husband presented her a new house in Bustan Kleb... according to our families lore she was so determined that this crud name was not adequate for her new address...during a big dinner party our aunt proceeds with a sermon about the crudity of Armenians and announces that the real name of her street is indeed "Bustan Gul Ab".....
I reluctanly E-mailed to by brothers and multitude of cousins...her offsprig spread accross the globe, as well as our doyen of the family at 97 yrs.old...your comment...
Seriously all thank you for proving the furkish policy of changing names that in time become legitimate if history is forgotten and the new name sounds logical progression towards civility? or falsification...Ainsi va la vie.
Please do not take offence as I am relaying facts that I lived through.
Sirov
Garo -alabtsi/Sisstsi
On another occasionI will give some details of the area in Halab where Armenians were predominent considerong themselves the leaders of "Syrian Armenians".
This enclave from a radius of one kilometre from hotel Baron as the epicenter... has a colourful and ancient history predating 1915...
A forum. Johannes, are you that Tigris?
http://www.dnforum.a...read.php?t=3174
Just as the so called Hanragitaran , the following does not do justice to the thousand year history of the Armenian Community of Aeppo.
http://www.periotem.com/
We had already seen this History of the Tin City here , thanks to Avril.
http://www.armenews....d_article=37114
And , finally. The dear teacher of our dear Friend, King of Aleppo Johannes.
http://www.azg.am/AR/2008011931
In conclusion. The history or the Armenian Community of Aleppo deserves a more expanded version than what we see in the Hanragitaran and what the Berio Dem offers us.
PS. Dear Garmag, you speak as if you are a Hin Haleptsi , but you also indicate that you are of Sisetsi heritage.
PPS. One time we had a correspondent by the nickname of GOR GOR who sounded like a Hin Haleptsi, who was sacrificed to the poison pen of that so called Shahan A.
