Should be outlawed...

[sSsflamesSs]

Yes, dstyle, the equivalent of "go/going".

[Tres Bien]

does anyone say xo?

[hyebruin]

how is 'etam' different than the widely used 'denam'??

people need to be less judgmental! no one speaks PURE g'rakan! and we have all been separated from one another due to history and politics...i hear some gasp for air when they hear 'hitzun' rather than 'hissun'...just relax already! unless you speak and read and understand g'rabar, you're not that much better off than the general population (this excludes hardcore gyughatsi dialect!)

[Tres Bien]

Etam and denam, both are gjughatsi barbar. We should all try to improve our langauge and speech. If someone uses xi, ara, ev denam and etam, after just speaking two or three sentences with the person Id assume that they are less educated people( my view) wich i see is the case mostly...

[nairi]

anyone who uses the world XI should die.

Xa? Xi?

And yes, we also say xo I think it's a Persian thing. Parskahayeren rules.

[ardenik]

i dont know what kind of retards say "etam" but ive never heard anybody (without a lisp) say it like that.

the word is ertal. with a "yech" so its pronounced "yertal".

it IS in the dictionnary, so whoever is bothered by the word "yertal" needs to brush up their OWN armenian speaking. i hate it when some stanzees mock our arevmdahye dialect, claiming its "wrong" & saying we dont speak "proper" armenian.... i guess that means "proper" armenian is SUPPOSED to be infested with russian words...

furthermore, the vast majority of these crippled armenian expressions u guys have enumerated as annoying are completely specific to the arevELahye dialect:

-ape
-voshsh
-ieeeeeeeeeh
-hele mi rope ieeeeeeeeeeh
-vobshe
-poka
-privet
-ara
-xi
-xo
-denam

what the hell do xi, xo, denam, vobshe & poka mean anyway?!?!?!? those are absolutely NOT armenian words.

[Emil]

Xa? Xi?

And yes, we also say xo I think it's a Persian thing. Parskahayeren rules.

I'm Persian-Armenian also, and I've never heard/said "xo." First time I've seen that word.

[patlajan]

Anything the beastie boys say should be outlawed. Those three rapping little jews are very annoying.

[fIReBuRntInHeLL]

Well, they say etam, but I do believe yertam is the original word.

Yertam is the formal of western armenian. Etam is slung of eastern armenian.

[fIReBuRntInHeLL]

Well I must inform some of you that eastern armenian has more slung than the western. Because there is the "culturakan" hayeren, with formal words and expressions and then there is the "joghovrtakan" which has the xi, inchi, es, en, instead of inchu, ais ain yev ailn. So uzek chuzek esa ! or usek chuzek aiseh!