Monday, February 18, 2013

Language Hiccup - We asked the concierge if they had any suggestions on good Georgian restaurants in the area.  In English, she mentioned that there was a restaurant nearby that was fantastic and had not just traditional Georgian food, but food from a lot of the former Soviet countries.  She then told us that the name of the restaurant was the country that doesn't exist anymore.  I (Sarah) proceeded to ask her which country - so we could get the specific name of the restaurant.  She then told me, again, that it's a country that doesn't exist anymore.  <This aside is for our nerdy readers (myself included) I thought this was some sort of Voldemort thing and assumed there was a reason she wasn't telling me>.  Anyway, I asked her to write the name of the restaurant so that I could read it - "strana katori niet." The name of the restaurant was literally "The Country that no longer exists" because they serve food from countries that used to be part of the Soviet Union, which is in fact a country that no longer exists.  Oi!

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