Armenian Genocide Commemoration in Beirut

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Re: Armenian Genocide Commemoration in Beirut

[TomServo]

Re: Armenian Genocide Commemoration in Beirut

Flag-burning is so passé.

What do you imagine a less learned person would think after taking one look at these pictures (with its Beirut backdrop, flag-burning crowd and signs in Arabic and some other alien script)?

And I wonder how many non-Armenian Lebanese or Palestinians actually attended this protest? I'm guessing not many.

The one sign I like is the one that says Ես Մշեցի եմ (I'm from Mush). Oh, and also the sign that transliterates Արարատ as Ararad.

[Sevag]

Re: Armenian Genocide Commemoration in Beirut

Flag-burning is so passé.

What do you imagine a less learned person would think after taking one look at these pictures (with its Beirut backdrop, flag-burning crowd and signs in Arabic and some other alien script)?

And I wonder how many non-Armenian Lebanese or Palestinians actually attended this protest? I'm guessing not many.

The one sign I like is the one that says Ես Մշեցի եմ (I'm from Mush). Oh, and also the sign that transliterates Արարատ as Ararad.

We are outdated people mate g neres...

They would see angry Armenians, who lost 1.5 million of their great-grandparents because of a genocide demanding their rights and lands. English and Arabic signs for the odars.

We were about 45-50K I'd guess 1000 were only odars if not less.

About the Արարատ, it's actually spelled as Ararad in Western Armenian and Ararat in Eastern. So, I don't get what your fuss is all about.

[TomServo]

Re: Armenian Genocide Commemoration in Beirut

We were about 45-50K I'd guess 1000 were only odars if not less.

Not surprising. The community is so insular, closed-off and ghettoized and it's the same thing here in the U.S. This is slowly changing (at least in Los Angeles) as the influx of other Armenian immigrants is leading to some kind of convergence.

About the Արարատ, it's actually spelled as Ararad in Western Armenian and Ararat in Eastern. So, I don't get what your fuss is all about.

Գիտեմ։ It's just that nobody pronounces it that way except for Western Armenian speakers (it's pronounced Ararat in English), so my fuss is that it'll just confuse the non-Western Armenian-speaking individual.

And I'm a WA speaker, by the way (father is from Aleppo; mother is from Beirut by way of Tripoli). Parev.

[Sevag]

Re: Armenian Genocide Commemoration in Beirut

Not surprising. The community is so insular, closed-off and ghettoized and it's the same thing here in the U.S. This is slowly changing (at least in Los Angeles) as the influx of other Armenian immigrants is leading to some kind of convergence.

It's not about being insular in the case of Middle-Eastern Armenians, since Arabs don't want to cause problems with their muslim brothers (The turks) by going on a march with us.

Գիտեմ։ It's just that nobody pronounces it that way except for Western Armenian speakers (it's pronounced Ararat in English), so my fuss is that it'll just confuse the non-Western Armenian-speaking individual.

And I'm a WA speaker, by the way (father is from Aleppo; mother is from Beirut by way of Tripoli). Parev.

Ah well, garevore nbadagne :P
Parevner! Halebtsinere khosh martig en, Tripoli krete hay chi mnats.