{"id":113,"date":"2022-02-18T11:32:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T10:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mepublic.ch\/?p=113"},"modified":"2022-02-18T13:31:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T12:31:53","slug":"tu-scheidsleba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mepublic.ch\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Tu scheidsleba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;<em>Tu scheidsleba?<\/em>&#8221; is not a timid inquiry for: <em>your life sucks?<\/em> <em>Mama <\/em>is<em> papa, papa <\/em>is<em> porridge, deda<\/em> (d\u00e4 da) is mama. Any questions?  <br>For Swiss-German speaking people, Georgian (or <em>kartuli ena<\/em>)  offers plenty of mnemonic aids. But also English does not fall short: &#8220;<em>Rogor char<\/em>&#8221; isn&#8217;t Roger&#8217;s car, but <em>how are you? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/mepublic.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/jfc-1024x478.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mepublic.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/jfc-1024x478.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mepublic.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/jfc-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mepublic.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/jfc-768x359.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mepublic.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/jfc-1536x718.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mepublic.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/jfc-2048x957.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Reads: kei eph si<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But even with the mnemonic aids the language remains daunting. After three weeks I still  barely manage to get along with the 33 characters of the alphabet.  When strolling back home I practice on the nameplates of restaurants, caf\u00e9s and shops, as they are often written in both Latin and Mkhedruli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"753\" src=\"https:\/\/mepublic.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/miamor-1024x753.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mepublic.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/miamor-1024x753.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mepublic.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/miamor-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mepublic.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/miamor-768x565.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mepublic.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/miamor-1536x1129.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mepublic.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/miamor.jpg 2040w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>And along comes typography&#8230;.and turns it into the literal maze to decipher. B E L? E G A K E ????<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way, <em>tu scheidsleba<\/em> means <em>please<\/em>  and is how you politely ask for a favor :-). That said:  &#8220;tu scheidsleba, can anyone decipher the text on above mural art? Thanks. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Tu scheidsleba?&#8221; is not a timid inquiry for: your life sucks? Mama is papa, papa is porridge, deda (d\u00e4 da) is mama. Any questions? For Swiss-German speaking people, Georgian (or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mepublic.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mepublic.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mepublic.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mepublic.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mepublic.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mepublic.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/mepublic.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mepublic.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mepublic.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mepublic.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}