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Yeah, the same here from the Caucasian mountains, it was so sunny I got a red nose yesterday.
and how wonderful that from the very North-West to the very South-East of Europe we have people here!
and I just had a quick look on the map, it is over 4500km from Dundee to to the Caucasian mountains and it would take over 50 hours to drive according to Google maps.
are the ferries running?
@chokheli I like the georgian alphabet. It looks so friendly somehow. How much pain does it cause on modern computers?
It reminds me of the Burmese alphabet
both scripts look appealingly well balanced
I wonder how the medium affected the script..e.g. Latin letters where cut into stone. Thus the slabs and geometric forms I guess
Yeah, they’re quite similar, but Georgian Mkhedruli looks a bit more independent from the rest of letters. @ordnungswidrig, it’s our 3rd iteration of Alphabet. 1 - Asomtavruli [Aso - letter, mtavruli - capital], dated from 3rd century BC to 9th century AD 2 - Nuskhuri, 9th to 19th century 3 - Mkhedruli - was used from 10th century as well, was a dominant in Royal scripts but became the dominant alphabet in 19th century. Georgian linguist tried to introduce Asomtavruli letters as a capital, but we seem to defied his attempt. all three side by side:
Actually the now western/Latin alphabet went through history switching from slabs to rounded and back, too. Now that I think of it :woman-facepalming::rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:
Yeah, I asked for calligraphy/cursive writing course in college (Boston, MA) and it turned out they stopped offering it 15 years ago 😂 I have a horrible hand-writing in Latin alphabet and haven’t straighten up it yet.
I’m left handed and my hand wrinting was never the best. Giving that I only write by hand for the shopping list or to fill in a form at the doctors it became so worse in the last year. I should really practice it. My daughter are into hand lattering and I’m so jealous.
@thomas definitely, I’ve never ever experienced such tech community that we have in Clojure. You’re most welcome to visit before a Georgian government builts a highway through my home :) Through the very place I have “my office” popped up. @ben.hammond to the Black Sea, yup. @ordnungswidrig Well, I can’t argue with that :) Thanks! What do you mean regarding pain though?
As a german I’m fighting sometimes with encodings already. I imagine having a non-latin environment, especially when it’s a more rare one like georgian, would sometime cause the weirdest errors.
The toughest experience I had with the alphabet was in bank, the system was using some 20+ years old font with forced Georgian into. Couldn’t read anything or do analysis unless I transliterated it to unicode and it was the endless process, as the CTO didn’t want to tackle the root of the issue.
@chokheli Thank you for the offer and although I'd love to come under the current circumstances it is even less likely to happen.
@thomas sure thing. Well, the invitation extends to the time when things do settle down :)
Georgia looks very nice, and as everywhere in the world the suppose there are nice and welcoming people. It also love to go there, never been to that area of the world. But with four kids I think my wife would call that too much of a stretch :-) maybe there is a nice tech conference some day which will justify me going there. I do not regret speaking at a Minsk conference although I only had a vague glimpse on the country.
Yes, absolutely! But recent infusion of tourism into the countries economy is making people a little less welcoming and more focused on extraction of money, and sometimes rather unethically, overcharging, etc. A local, financially indifferent person is a good asset to the travels here. Ping me if you decide :) Anyway, we have Data Fest each fall, don’t know what will happen this time, but you can check it out: https://datafest.ge
Yeah, they’re quite similar, but Georgian Mkhedruli looks a bit more independent from the rest of letters. @ordnungswidrig, it’s our 3rd iteration of Alphabet. 1 - Asomtavruli [Aso - letter, mtavruli - capital], dated from 3rd century BC to 9th century AD 2 - Nuskhuri, 9th to 19th century 3 - Mkhedruli - was used from 10th century as well, was a dominant in Royal scripts but became the dominant alphabet in 19th century. Georgian linguist tried to introduce Asomtavruli letters as a capital, but we seem to defied his attempt. all three side by side:
Yes, absolutely! But recent infusion of tourism into the countries economy is making people a little less welcoming and more focused on extraction of money, and sometimes rather unethically, overcharging, etc. A local, financially indifferent person is a good asset to the travels here. Ping me if you decide :) Anyway, we have Data Fest each fall, don’t know what will happen this time, but you can check it out: https://datafest.ge