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    Need help translating English to Armenian

    Hello all. I am on a frantic preparing a personal statement for admissions to college quest and I am hoping you can help me.

    My grandmother used to say something like "An educated women
    is worth less than a crippled donkey" in Armenian to my mother. Unfortunately because of this thought system my grandmother and mother did not want me to go to college and this has held me back many years.

    As much as I fiercely love my Armenian roots, the sad truth is my upbringing was against women going to school. Maybe my grandparents were from some rural uneducated area but that is the truth.

    I finally resolved to go and educate myself. I would like to add that above sentence in Armenian as my opening statement. I am going to ask my mother but oddly enough she has forgotten a good portion of her Armenian.

    I was never taught Armenian. Could someone make a translation or something as close to as possible? I would really appreciate it and your help may get me my foot in the door to a very good college.

    I do thank you so much. This is a sincere request and I have been working many hours on my personal statement and my head is about to fall off.

    I know you are thinking what a bizarro request this is, if I wasn't in such a rush to get my personal statement prepared I would agree. But I want to start my paper with the one statement that ran through my family and is so important to why I wish to go to college.

    If you want, you can write to me personally at [email protected]

    Thanks so much
    Last edited by pink5; 03-12-2005, 03:55 PM.
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    I've never heard the saying, but here's what I could come up with (in Western Armenian):

    Ousoumnasiradz gin mu aveli kich g'arjhe kan gagh esh mu.
    (Also: "gagh" is the Armenian word for...something less than "crippled" -- it means someone that can't walk straight. You might also want to try "topal" which is the Turkish equivalent of of "gagh." Our family uses topal.)

    That is a direct translation of the sentence you provided, but I have a feeling the original Armenian saying is probably more poetic and probably rhymes. Or maybe it was written the other way around and slightly differently, like "Gagh eshu aveli tang e kan ousoumnasiradz ginu." (The crippled donkey is more precious than the educated woman.)

    Oh I don't know...lol I hope this puts you on the right track. Ask your mom to read the 2 sentences I provided and see if they jog her memory.

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      Thanks so much! I doubt the admissions office will know the difference. Thanks soooo much!

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        There is a famous hot dog stand here in Hollywood called Pinks. It's really good.
        Achkerov kute.

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        • #5
          My handle

          http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/content/pink5


          My guy friends were calling me Pink one day and I didn't know why. After I made them tell me, they showed me this little film. It made me laugh because the girl has my name and I would probably act exactly the same way if I were in the military.

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            Originally posted by pink5
            http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/content/pink5

            My guy friends were calling me Pink one day and I didn't know why. After I made them tell me, they showed me this little film. It made me laugh because the girl has my name and I would probably act exactly the same way if I were in the military.
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            Achkerov kute.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Anonymouse
              By the way that flash animation site is the best. I've been a frequent viewer for a few years. I especially like their piece on Steven Segal.

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              I tried to play one of their games Capoeira but I couldn't download it properly. Have to get my son to help me. Yeah, its fantastic animation.

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