Georgian taxi and Goshi-mom-dad

Being a passenger of a Georgian taxi is an adventure, akin to a roller coaster: scary, harsh, fascinating and, ultimately, for unknown reasons, everyone will survive.

Georgian taxi driver considers it a matter of honor and a sign of professionalism to do the following things at the same time:

It is impossible to get used to these thrills, at least as long as you are a tourist and the number of your clashes with employees of the Georgian helm and brake did not exceed 100.

Here, on the seat of a Georgian taxi, and in other words, in one of the first places after the airport where you should encounter local flavor, you will surely learn several Georgian capital truths:

By the way, about the "no." In Georgian, the word sounds like "macaw". For the first six months, I pestered all my acquaintances with the Georgians with the same question: why, if you agree, do you say the word “yes” once, and if you deny it, then say “ara-ara-ara!”?

Clearly no one answered me, and then, six months later, I came up with an answer for myself. The fact is that in the Georgian language there are three variants of the word "yes." They sound like that - ho, ki and dia. But the word is not - just one. It is the very same "macaw".

So it turns out that a subtle sense of justice of a Georgian ... requires linguistic compensation!

Three "yes"? Here are three "no"! Strictly according to the law of world balance!

In general, the linguistic subtleties of the Georgian language are a separate beautiful topic, complete, from the Russian point of view, confusions and practically anecdotes. For example, in the Georgian language there is the word "mother". In Russian, it translates as dad. The mother herself will be in Georgian “grandfather” like a grandfather. Grandfather will be "Dad". Well, dad - is "mom" ... and then in a circle. Here's how not to drink? ????