Anyone need me?
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Anyone need me?
Hello friends!
I am very glad to join your family. Best wishes and greeting from Armenia!
If anyone need to translate somethin one/from Armenian, just let me know.
Also it would a great privilege for me to ask you for help, if there be a need.
Best regards,
Ashot Gareginyan, journalist and enterpreter
Yerevan,
Armenia
I am very glad to join your family. Best wishes and greeting from Armenia!
If anyone need to translate somethin one/from Armenian, just let me know.
Also it would a great privilege for me to ask you for help, if there be a need.
Best regards,
Ashot Gareginyan, journalist and enterpreter
Yerevan,
Armenia
- Maïwenn
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Re: Anyone need me?
hello to you! it seems you are the first member able to speak Armenian, welcome!
Penn ar Bed
The end of the land
Le commencement d'un monde
The end of the land
Le commencement d'un monde
Re: Anyone need me?
Welcome! You will feel at home among so many language fans.
Re: Anyone need me?
Welcome Octopus!
I te rahiraa o te taime, mea pāpū aè te reo ia taì mai i te mafatu, e mea haavarevare roa atoā rä o ia.
La langue est souvent plus éloquente, mais aussi plus trompeuse que le coeur.
La langue est souvent plus éloquente, mais aussi plus trompeuse que le coeur.
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Hey, count me in, Maï ! You forget I am a great specialist of biblical armenian, for I studied it for.... hem at least ten days during academic vacations, but I did work a lot you know...Maïwenn wrote:hello to you! it seems you are the first member able to speak Armenian, welcome!
Well Բարի գալուստ Octopus (I can even read.. hem... an half of those letters, I'm sure I will...If I had time to...)
La plupart des occasions des troubles du monde sont grammairiennes (Montaigne, II.12)
Re: Anyone need me?
Anuanua wrote:Welcome Octopus!
Ho-ho!! thanks a lot!
Anyway, Բարի գալուստ was written quite correct. Շնորհակալությո'ւն:
Do keep studying, my friend
Best,
Ashot Gareginyan
Ashot Gareginyan
Re: Anyone need me?
Ho-ho!! thanks a lot!Sisyphe wrote:Hey, count me in, Maï ! You forget I am a great specialist of biblical armenian, for I studied it for.... hem at least ten days during academic vacations, but I did work a lot you know...Maïwenn wrote:hello to you! it seems you are the first member able to speak Armenian, welcome!
Well Բարի գալուստ Octopus (I can even read.. hem... an half of those letters, I'm sure I will...If I had time to...)
Anyway, Բարի գալուստ was written quite correct. Շնորհակալությո'ւն:
Do keep studying, my friend
Best,
Ashot Gareginyan
Ashot Gareginyan
Re: Anyone need me?
Actually it is a joke. Maïwenn and Sisyphe are long-time friends and she says that she is "ashamed" for having forgotten that Sisyphe knows... well euh... at least ten words in Armenian!Octopus wrote:Why shame on you?
By the way, I forgot to mention: "Maeva" means "welcome" in reo ma'ohi and reo porinetia, a family of languages from Polynesia. (I am the "specialist" in polynesian languages on this forum. "Specialist" because I am the only one and, for that reason alone, I am the best. Although, to tell the thruth, I am actually a beginner but Shhhht! don't tell anybody!)
I te rahiraa o te taime, mea pāpū aè te reo ia taì mai i te mafatu, e mea haavarevare roa atoā rä o ia.
La langue est souvent plus éloquente, mais aussi plus trompeuse que le coeur.
La langue est souvent plus éloquente, mais aussi plus trompeuse que le coeur.
- Maïwenn
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Re: Anyone need me?
That's it!Anuanua wrote:Actually it is a joke. Maïwenn and Sisyphe are long-time friends and she says that she is "ashamed" for having forgotten that Sisyphe knows... well euh... at least ten words in Armenian!Octopus wrote:Why shame on you?
Penn ar Bed
The end of the land
Le commencement d'un monde
The end of the land
Le commencement d'un monde
Re: Anyone need me?
"Maeva" sounds nice! Armen ian equivalent is - "Bari galust!"Anuanua wrote:Actually it is a joke. Maïwenn and Sisyphe are long-time friends and she says that she is "ashamed" for having forgotten that Sisyphe knows... well euh... at least ten words in Armenian!Octopus wrote:Why shame on you?
By the way, I forgot to mention: "Maeva" means "welcome" in reo ma'ohi and reo porinetia, a family of languages from Polynesia. (I am the "specialist" in polynesian languages on this forum. "Specialist" because I am the only one and, for that reason alone, I am the best. Although, to tell the thruth, I am actually a beginner but Shhhht! don't tell anybody!)
the more we learn, the less we know, you see................
Best,
Ashot Gareginyan
Ashot Gareginyan
Re: Anyone need me?
Well, I shall keep this sexcret, I swear!.....Octopus wrote:"Maeva" sounds nice! Armen ian equivalent is - "Bari galust!"Anuanua wrote:Actually it is a joke. Maïwenn and Sisyphe are long-time friends and she says that she is "ashamed" for having forgotten that Sisyphe knows... well euh... at least ten words in Armenian!Octopus wrote:Why shame on you?
By the way, I forgot to mention: "Maeva" means "welcome" in reo ma'ohi and reo porinetia, a family of languages from Polynesia. (I am the "specialist" in polynesian languages on this forum. "Specialist" because I am the only one and, for that reason alone, I am the best. Although, to tell the thruth, I am actually a beginner but Shhhht! don't tell anybody!)
the more we learn, the less we know, you see................
Best,
Ashot Gareginyan
Ashot Gareginyan
Re: Anyone need me?
Actually, before the arrival of White men in Polynesia, Maeva was a "royal" form of welcome. You would say "Maeva" to a king or to a god. Actually, there is a religious anthem called "Maeva Ta'aroa", Ta'aroa being the name of God in this language. You can hear it by clicking here. It is played here with a mix of traditionnal and modern instruments but, beleive it or not, the rythm is unchanged! (Actually, "disco" music which was so popular in the '60s and '70s was due to tourists coming back to Europe after visiting Polynesia thanks to the new airplanes that could travel the distance.) Danse is also a form of prayer in Polynesia, which explains the "lively" rythm of religious anthems. The "usual" form to welcome someone was "Manava". However, today both forms are used and an expression we hear daily now is "Maeva e manava".Octopus wrote:"Maeva" sounds nice! Armen ian equivalent is - "Bari galust!"
And, do you know where "Bari galust" comes from?
About "welcome", there is another expression which is typical of the exceptionnal Polynesian hospitality : 'io 'oe [eeo owey]
Litterally translated, it means "Your home". Implying : "You are here at home". Is it possible to welcome someone better than that???
The same expression is used almost throughout Oceania, although its spelling changes from place to place...
So... Yokwe o te Lokanova, Octopus
I beg to disagree... If that was true, universities would produce ignorants and alcohol would produce Nobel prices. My belief is that the more we learn, the more we REALISE how little we know. What ignorants ignore the most is how much they ignore. A trout in a pond may beleive that, when it knows the pond well, it will understand the Universe.Octopus wrote:the more we learn, the less we know, you see................
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P.S. Why did you choose "Octopus" as your username?
I te rahiraa o te taime, mea pāpū aè te reo ia taì mai i te mafatu, e mea haavarevare roa atoā rä o ia.
La langue est souvent plus éloquente, mais aussi plus trompeuse que le coeur.
La langue est souvent plus éloquente, mais aussi plus trompeuse que le coeur.