kakachik77

glad you noted this...this is the point, in the west nobody cares anymore about accesorizing etc...simple jeans and a top is sufficient enough. I don't really enjoy armenian garments etc, I prefer Japanese fabrics and in general Japanese taste in colors etc. In the same manner I don't enjoy a lot of Indian fabrics, for me it's too much bright coloring.

i was there in 2003 and coming back soon again, this is for work. I was referring to the fashion not the girls in the streets. Like I mentioned before, people in the streets are buying turkish merchandize so hopefully as I mentioned, that will change as the country becomes economically more developed. Some people also mentioned people's looks which is competely irrelevant to this topic. I actually think the Armenian people are very good looking just the wardrobe needs some improvement.

if something is mediocre I am going to call it mediocre without the regards if it pertains to Armenian, Georgian or American culture. It's not mocking as much as criticism and that always helps to improve things. I checked out some photos from New York's fashion week today and some designers were equally bad as some of the Armenian ones but of course some were fascinating. All I am saying that we should not make ourselves feel better by not criticising something that needs improvement just because it's Armenian.

why not Arab historians themselves publish a book about it? The fact that an Armenian had to put this work together makes me wonder if the Arab world really cares about this issue at all.

Kov: moooo Katu: myau myau Gar: Be (open e) like in French "saute"

yeah, I am sorry I just think that when it comes to fashion Armenians have to eat a lot of "hats u panir" to get up there. I just did not see any elegance, sexuality, style anything in those fashions. Plus, have you been in Armenia lately and feel how people's clothes are different from the West? The first few days I felt in some Anatolian village, most clothes come from Turkey so what do you expect? What girls consider sexy is completely different form the West? The style of jeans that these girls were wearing I've only seen on Hispanic sweat shop workers in East Los Angeles. I want to say, the fasion sense is not behind for few years from the West, but completely different. This will change as the nation becomes for economically developed, hopefully.

they are just folk costumes from I believe 19th century, most of match exactly with the turkish ones, I'm not a big fan either.

I second this, specially that Phrygian and Thracian are directly linked to Armenian as ancestor tongues and these tribes definately were of Balkan/Greek origin. It's kind of like looking at American English in the next 500 years for example and thinking that English came from Spanish because there are so many Spanish words that have become everyday words in English today, just because both are IE language and the respective countries where these languages are spoken share a border does not necessarily mean one language originated from another.

shauntulik is from Russian influence

He was half-Armenian.

ok, the Russian one was just hilarious Kuda idyom mi s Pitachkov, bolshoy bolshoy secret :)

you're right it's pronounced EQ. I read somewhere on Hyeforum that Armenian EG/EQ and the word EGG have the same root, that was quite a revelation to me.

back in the days I worked for this gallery, happy days....Rutberg was always a big fan of Gorky.

EG not ED and even then it means female not male Ed, I am kind of surprised that you did not know that your name was not of Armenian origin

Arpa, so Eghia and Eghish are the same name?

Yeghish jan, it's from Greek ELIAS, which comes from a Hebrew word ELIJAH meaning "Jehovah is God". The variant of your name in English is Elliot, also Ellis (as in Ellis Island). L became GH like in many other armenian words like "catoghikos" etc. As you already know your name in Armenian starts with E not Y, the last S and SH is something that happened when the name was further Armenized. I hope I was helpful

so it seems like the Armenian usage of IK/AK as dimminutive suffixes has roots elsewhere (meaning not from Persian). It is used both in Western and Eastern Armenian so it cannot be a direct influence from Russian. I don't know, quite interesting.

Iran, is IK/AK used in Persian as diminutive suffix like in Armenian tun (house) - tunik (little house) like in Russian dom (house) - domik (little house)

i don't think purely Armenian, i am more curious to know what other language have them. I will say Russian probably Ukrainian and number of other slavik languages guessing scandinavian too Farsi

Arpa, not sure when Ajarian worked, beginning of 20th century, but I know for sure during the past 100 years or so the classification of Armenian has changed as a language being derived from Persian and has been recognized as an independent brunch with no close surviving relatives. Of course, plus now we had the whole Phrygian connection, Armens being a tribe from Balkans who brought their language with them. I think Ik/AK/UK also exist in Scandinavian languages, like they have that name Henrik (as in Henrik Ibsen), so Indo-European is definately more accurate.

why is UK necessarily a Persian import, IK, AK exists in Russian as well, is that also a Persian import? I doubt it. Why don't we say it is just Indo-European.

Rachmaninov's Vocalise in E minor - one of my favorites.

yes but they (Ajarians) don't see themselves as such and much prefer to be independent from Orthodox Georgians, it's not just a religion issue, it's also cultural etc. A better example are Bosnians and Serbs, Bosnians essentially being just Turkified/Islamised Serbs.

I tend to associate Ararat with strength, since our national symbols is a mountain (standing tall and proud) then somehow we as a nation have emulated that same attitude, that's why perhaps we have persisted for so many centuries.

...and are in war with Georgians for independence.