Eastern vs. Western

Sometimes it feels like it really is east vs. west when you hear people discuss it, or some of the comments about the main divide in the Armenian dialects, but as inconvenient as it is, I kinda like having two major dialects in our language. My history with them is growing up speaking western Armenian, then moving here and wondering what people are talking about for weeks until I started to get the hang of it, then starting to use Eastern conjugation and vocab, while maintaining a primarily western pronunciation of letters. After a few months of that I had trouble switching back to Western for just a few sentences... I had to speak it for about a day to really get it back. Finally, now, after all this time I can always switch back to Western clean, but if I have been in Western mode for a while then Eastern takes a day to get back into. The funniest thing is that when I can't remember an Armenian word that I know in Spanish, I really want to say the Spanish word for it...

The comments really will be back... the site hosting them is working on it. But it is probably a matter of weeks not days.