About Avoiding Spelling Mistakes
We usually have problems when we try to transcribe an Armenian name into English. Sometimes people h...
21
Apr
Armenian Language Corner
17
Mar
WHITE VS. WHITE
You can say “snowy” or “milky,” but you know that those are not straightforward synonyms for “white....
10
Feb
Not “Armed Children”
As anyone knows, մանուկ (manook) means “child.” But this is the modern meaning. In the past, this Ar...
27
Jan
Men Did Not Come from the Cave
In the dawn of human existence, early humans found caves as one of their first refuges. This was the...
13
Jan
About Dragomans and Tarkmans
If you read literature related to the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East in the modern and early con...
23
Dec
THE MEANING IS THE SAME
“A palatial house in a very expensive neighborhood.”
We find sometimes this description when they...
09
Dec
ARMENIAN THANKSGIVING
Thanksgiving is as American a holiday as apple pie but, of course, the word “thanksgiving” existed ...
11
Nov
ART AND TECHNOLOGY
You speak of fine arts, but also of liberal arts, and even of the art of cooking. Therefore, the ide...
28
Oct
The Unknown Witches
Witches have never enjoyed good press, especially when they are of the evil genre. The word վհուկ (v...
14
Oct
SMOKE AND PARISHES
“What’s the relation between a parish and a fire?”
“There is smoke involved in both.”
“How com...