Pure Armenian??? Not in Yerevan anyway. The language is so infiltrated not hust by foreign words but by foreign linguistical modalities, basically adopted from the Russian. Khosk@ gnum eh Ban@ nranum eh People are no using "Vorpesi" instead of plain "Vor" It seems that the basics have been tossed to the wayside. Let's start at the beginning and scrap the Soviet-enforced orthography introduced in the 1920's for the actual spelling and alphabet that Armenians used for centuries.

I am not against the use of foreign words in Armenian. However, if there is an Armenian alternative to the foreign word, why not use the Armenian version? And why don't we all use 'e' for is, and instead use 'a'. sounds much more beautiful than .

Տարոն, լավ կլիներ ինքդ քեզանից սկսեիր։ Ինքդ ինչո՞ւ չես խոսում հայերեն։ Մոռացե՞լ ես։ Ուրիշներին խրատելը չես մոռացել։

Unless our academicians allow the language to evolve, develop and absorb foreign words, the gap between literate Armenian and the one spoken by people will only increase making the problem more severe. Most of the russian words have foreign origin, but that does not prevent Russian to be a full bodied and wonderful language. Oxford dictionary of English adds a few new words every day. Our quest for purity makes us isolated and alienated nation. It becomes more and more difficult to use Armenian in the age of globalization and internet and to make kids growing in different countries outside Armenia to learn it. The nationalism becoming a serious problem in all spheres of Armenian public life from politics to culture. It is horrible to watch Armenian TV and read media full of claims of real Armeniannes, purity and superiority, mixed with horrible quality and poor presentation.

There are only one million Estonians and just 2,5 million Latvians in the world. They speak their respective languages perfectly and they don't have respect for people who do not speak the language correctly. As for Armenian, let us instead of Russian, Turkish, Persian or Arabic words, just use Armenian words as much as we can. If we can say 'nor'(new), why use the Persian 'taza'?