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The only thing I know how to say in Georgian is "I love you."  Sounds something like "Me'shen me'khvarkhar."  Or, at least that's what they told me.  This is what happens when your language acquisition skills come from partying with inebriated boys in a foreign country...  I guess I know some food & wine words too, like kachapuri.  Yum.  I can read/recognize very basic publication information in the Georgian script.  Mostly, though, it's absolutely incomprehensible to me.  The fact that every Georgian I ever met spoke Russian never motivated me to learn the language.  :(

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
by poemless on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 11:11:06 AM EST
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Aah, have you visited Georgia (though I imagine there would be not insignificant diaspora in other parts of the Soviet Union)? I would love to go there someday, if only to get my hands on some Georgian wine ;-)

Yeah, I think it's "mik'varkhar" (მიყვარხარ)(subject and object can be omitted, as the verb itself in this instance carries a second person object marker! Madness, I say!).

There's a late 80s Soviet comedy, Паспорт, in which the protagonist is Georgian. They speak quite a bit of Georgian in the first half of the movie, though you can't really hear much of it thanks to the miracle of Russian-style dubbing...

(btw, switching between three different alphabets on your keyboard in the same post is rather disorienting...)

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror" - Oscar Wilde

by NordicStorm (michael<-at->sturmbaum.net) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 02:24:12 PM EST
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No, I've never been, but I REALLY want to go one day. I hung out with Georgians in Russia.  There were a lot of them, actually.  I don't know what it's like for them now, but then it wasn't an issue, really.  

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
by poemless on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 02:34:19 PM EST
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