User talk:Chuck67322

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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! --Vahag (talk) 23:52, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

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Yes, I was asking where you got that word from, then I found it in Kuyumjian. It is interesting that for me, a speaker of Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian is mutually intelligible. It doesn't work vice versa? --Vahag (talk) 09:53, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

My parents and grandparents can understand it fairly well, but my brothers and I can barely understand it. I don't know. I guess it's because they've been exposed regularly to Eastern Armenian back in the Middle East, but we only speak Western Armenian amongst our family. I'm sure I can figure out the differences if I tried, but to be honest, I don't think it's necessarily important to me.

Anyway, alright. Thanks for checking. On another note, what's the deal with traditional and reformed orthography? Do people on Wiktionary typically use reformed orthography? Chuck67322 (talk) 05:05, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

Yes, reformed orthography should be used in translations and in the main entry. See WT:AHY. Traditional orthography is not prohibited though. It is softly redirected to the main entry; cf. բացատրութիւն (bacʻatrutʻiwn). If you can't add translations in reformed orthography, that's fine, do it in traditional orthography, I'll convert. --Vahag (talk) 20:28, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the help. Chuck67322 (talk) 01:27, 11 December 2013 (UTC)