DISPUTE OVER COMMON GRAMMAR GOES ON

Lragir.am
24 March 06

On April 7 the final act of the judicial process between Paruir
Hairikyan and the Language Inspection will take place at the Court of
Appeals. Paruir Hairikyan suggests applying a common grammar, and a
number of academicians and representatives of the intelligentsia
oppose to him. Hairikyan says their resistance is the consequence of
their linguistic unawareness. `In fact, they oppose to Paruir
Sevak. Do they know the language better than Sevak, are they better
scholars than Sevak?’ says Hairikyan. The leader of the United
National Party says there is linguistics and language policy, that
must not be confused but combined.

Like Vramshapuh instructed Mesrop Mashtots to create the Armenian
alphabet, similarly the president could sign a decree on starting to
teach common grammar at schools within three years. Our president has
complexes, he does not hide that his education is Russian, and he has
complexes, says Hairikyan.

According to him, his opponents are illiterate. `We have arrived at a
point when Beria Mirzoyan (i.e. the chief of the Language Inspection
Lavrenti Mirzoyan) says that hopefully the court will not enforce
their decision, and the tribunal acts accordingly because they are
also illiterate,’ states Paruir Hairikyan.