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Garen Yegparian

Garen Yegparian

Asbarez Columnist
Garen Yegparian is a fat, bald guy who has too much to say and do for his own good. So, you know he loves mouthing off weekly about anything he damn well pleases to write about that he can remotely tie in to things Armenian. He's got a checkered past: principal of an Armenian school, project manager on a housing development, ANC-WR Executive Director, AYF Field worker (again on the left coast), Operations Director for a telecom startup, and a City of LA employee most recently (in three different departments so far). Plus, he's got delusions of breaking into electoral politics, meanwhile participating in other aspects of it and making sure to stay in trouble. His is a weekly column that appears originally in Asbarez, but has been republished to the Armenian Weekly for many years.
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  1. You are repeating the experience of the early Zionist pioneers in the Land of Israel. If we were to revive the Jewish homeland we had to speak, read and write the authentic Jewish language, i.e. Hebrew. The Jewish day school in Brooklyn that I attended taught all religious subjects in Hebrew, as well as classical Hebrew literature, and now I am fluent in English and Hebrew, participate in Israeli sports groups on Facebook and have no difficulty communicating with the locals on my visits to Israel.

  2. an Armenian who doesn’t think in Armenian is not 100% Armenian, no nation can become great without the number one tool…Languange…the time has come to merge eastern/western dialects into one universal Armenian, and start to teach the newborns, the one and only mother tongue, where every soldier/citizen, civic leader, and most importantly business leaders can communicate with each other without any problems, despite of it all, leaving love of motherland aside, if an Armenian cannot earn a living, thinking and reacting, and processing day to day functions in Armenian, he/she is not going to be fully immersed in armenianness, so let’s all put aside, my version is correct and or your version is wrong and fuse into one for all, and remember, there is no mine and yours, it all OURS

  3. While I have no disagreement with many of the author’s comments and observations, I seriously question his comment
    that “. . .we lost our political classes and hierarchy who opportunistically converted to Islam. . .” I know of only forced conversions, not “opportunistic” ones. I wonder what his source is for this amazing statement. Can he name a few examples to illustrate his unfounded conclusion? One other point that he completely neglects to mention is the role of the Armenian institutions in Iran which succeeded in retaining the Armenian language for at least one more generation than did the Armenian institutions in other western countries.

  4. Yes Hye chem, paits shad gesirem hyeren lezu.
    I want to try to communucate with people in Hyeren via email.
    Im maireni lezu Yiddish mne — which is also a threatened species linguistically speaking.
    Moreso, in fact, than Armenian.
    The Hryas and the Hyes have much in common, which is one reason I am so attracted to
    Armenian culture and language. Ps, religion has nothing tobdo with it. I am a confirmed Jewish Atheist
    So, k’desnevink and Tsedessutsyoon ~~ take yer choice, but lets keep the Linguistic Faith.
    I go to Yerevan every summer for the Vosgee Dziran kinonegar Festival.
    Its my favorit Qaghaq in the whole ashkharh and I feel prrfectly chez moi there because people are so friendly
    And appreciate the affirts of an outsider to learn their language. I also love apricots and string cheese.

  5. Yes Hye chem, paits shad gesirem hyeren lezu.
    I want to try to communucate with people in Hyeren via email.
    Im maireni lezu Yiddish mne — which is also a threatened species linguistically speaking.
    Moreso, in fact, than Armenian.
    The Hryas and the Hyes have much in common, which is one reason I am so attracted to
    Armenian culture and language. Ps, religion has nothing to do with it. I am a confirmed Jewish Atheist
    So, k’desnevink and Tsedessutsyoon ~~ take yer choice, but lets keep the Linguistic Faith.
    I go to Yerevan every summer for the Vosgee Dziran kinonegar Festival.
    It’s my favorite Qaghaq in the whole Ashkharh and I feel perfectly chez moi there because people are so friendly
    And appreciate the efforts of an outsider to learn their language. I also love apricots and string cheese.

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