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Azat, Movses, Eduard, Evochka, Anoushik, Amy, Sip, Domino, Maral, Vava, Arpa and all the new members! Happy Birthday 2008!!! ( ... I made it before the New Year) Harut jan, chem hishum tsnundt erb er bayts qonn el shnorhavor, eghbayr!

If by "Communism" you mean one party dominated system, well Japan also has a system where one party (LDP) dominates. That doesn't realy matter. If you mean socialist economy, well maybe there still are some babushkas who have nostalgia for Communism in terms of high pensions, cheap food and free tickets for public transport and other public services but Russia nowadays is anything but Communist. Believe me the U.S. (or Sweden) is much more a communist state than today's Russia.

Was that grass from the right bank of River Panj in Badakhshan Province or from the left bank? Tell me the truth.

Room Service - Tenjewberrymuds The following is a telephone exchange between a hotel guest and room-service at a hotel in Asia. It was recorded and published in the Far East Economic Review: To get the full effect it should be read aloud. [You will understand what 'tenjewberrymuds' means by the end of the conversation.] Room Service (RmSv): Morrin. Roon sirbees. Guest: Sorry, I thought I dialled room-service. RmSv: Rye...Roon sirbees...morrin! Jewish to oddor sunteen? Guest: Uh..yes..I'd like some bacon and eggs. RmSv: Ow July den? Guest: What?? RmSv: Ow July den?...pryed, boyud, poochd? Guest: Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry, scrambled please. RmSv: Ow July dee baykem? Crease? Guest: Crisp will be fine. RmSv: Hokay. An Sahn toes? Guest: What? RmSv: An toes. July Sahn toes? Guest: I don't think so. RmSv: No? Judo wan sahn toes?? Guest: I feel really bad about this, but I don't know what 'judo wan sahn toes' means. RmSv: Toes! toes!... Why jew don juan toes? Ow bow Anglish moppin we bodder? Guest: English muffin!! I've got it! You were saying 'Toast.' Fine. Yes, an English muffin will be fine. RmSv: We bodder? Guest: No...just put the bodder on the side. RmSv: Wad? Guest: I mean butter... just put it on the side. RmSv: Copy? Guest: Excuse me? RmSv: Copy...tea...meel? Guest: Yes. Coffee, please, and that's all. RmSv: One Minnie. Scramah egg, crease baykem, Anglish moppin we bodder on sigh and copy...rye? Guest: Whatever you say. RmSv: Tenjewberrymuds. Guest: You're very welcome. --------------------------------------------------------- Very nice country and the friendliest people on earth. Just remember one thing, if you're on the beach and you suddenly notice the water retreating, don't go after it, RUN in the opposite direction!!!

Ya? Wundeba. Could you say the same in Englisch, please? It's very intriguing

That was quite a surprise I must say. When I clicked on the thread I thought I'm going to read a recipe for Urfa Shish Sushi.

This was not an acceptable result. Our team was a full degree higher than the Serbs. Maybe it was bacause the strongest defenders in the Serb team missed the match ... Anyway, looked like team Armenia was trained for eveything except kicking the ball in the net from one meter distance.

Ara, Russians are bad, realy bad. However, they don't have anything to do with the world crisis that's gonna start in a year or two, and may lead to a big war in the Middle East and elsewhere. This crisis is being slowly, step by step developed by Anglo-American policy centers. Iraq, Iran, oil prices, world financial and banking crisis, Kurdistan-Turkey etc. etc. And the primary reason for this is not freedom or democracy, but America's economic and civilizational egosim. US is doing this to hamper the development of China, India, Russia and Brazil. To ensure its costly and comfortable lifestyle America now needs another world war far from its shores, somewhere in Eurasia.

Shall I say thank you or happy birthday Anahid?

Now Maral will remember my birthday for the rest of her life. Amy jan what shall I do for you in return?

Domino, Movses, Sipan, Eduard bolorid tsnundnere shnorhavor! Ume ushacrel em knereq.

Eve jan, if that was me then Happy Birthday to you too, if not than I take my words back

Thanks Amy jan. I was with Azat an hour ago and he told me to say "Ni Hao" to all Hye Forum members. Azat jan happy birthday aper. And thanks for the Tequila!

Hmmm... How do they calculate this?

Bremen, Germany That's an easy one buddy

Happy Birthday Eve.

Let me confirm the welcome. It has to pass a ratification procedure though

Azat u Movses shnorhavor tgheq. Here's my present. A Japanese guy says to an Abarantsi: Japanese: Ododromashita takanaka sayonara Coca Cola san. Abarantsi: Gnam xanout inch arne~m? (You want me to go to the store and buy what?)

Thanks everyone. So, it's the birthday season again Shnorhavor Sipan. Amenayn bariq.

There are parts in the epic that can be interpreted differently but I was refering to a specific phraze. I don't think so. "Oghormi" is only used for dead people. The only case it can be used with people alive is a joke. Clearly, your granpa was joking. "Oghormi" is never used like "please". I think you mix it with "matagh linem qez". "Zoghormin ti tam akanj aroghneri tsnorghnerin" has a message in it. It means that those who listen to Sasuntsi Davit epic must be experienced enough to understand its meaning. Experience they have gathered should come from the stages of life they already passed. They have reach the point in their lives when they forever lost the people who gave them birth.

"Treason and betrayal are in our blood", "Armenians survive by cannibalizing each other" ... Majestic words. Only Armenians can hate their nation with such passion.

Error 404, http://www.armenianhouse.org/tumanyan/epic...untsidavid.html Here it is. It is not the epic. It is a poem about the Sasuntsi Davit part of the epic. The epic is a result of a scientific research done by generations of Armenian scientists starting from Garegin Srvandztain. It was published in 40s by the National Academy of Armenia and edited by professor Manuk Abeghian and someone else. There can't be 1000 opinions on that particular phraze. If the author (the whole Armenian people) is saying a "zoghormi" to the parents of the reader (or listener, because S.D. was narrated and sung by minstrels) that means the author assumes that the parents of all the listners are dead. Why do you think he does that? Isen't there a question to be asked?

That is true. Thanks, Zartonk.

Error, Sasuntsi Davit begins with the following: "Darnam, zoghormin ti tam, Khanoum Tsovinarin. Darnam, zoghormin ti tam, Sanasarin, Baghdasarin. Darnam, zoghormin ti tam, Qeri Torosikin. Darnam, zoghormin ti tam akanj aroghneri tsnorghnerin." When you read this part, the first riddle that you will notice is "akanj aroghneri tsnorghnerin". Why is the "author" saying a "zoghormi" to the parents of the reader?

I have read somewhere that national epics never represent historic facts. An epic tells about the emotional mood of a nation, its collective imagination and aspirations and, as a result, its fate.