Even Greener Pastures

Jerry,

Well, with the German roots you should study German. Forget that Georgian stuff. Like you said, no one is going to speak it anyway, and where are the resources to learn it even if it had utility? Sounds like a lot of work for nothing. I´m always thinking of analogies, so give me a moment. You know those guys in your town (this is sort of an American tradition guys so bear with me) that have like a 1952 rusting Packard parked on the grass in the front of their house that doesn’t run? You know, it`s an eyesore. But the owners thinks “Oh, some day I`ll put the time and money into restoring it and then it will be great”  but he never does? Every town in the US has people like this. Even if he did restore the car and drive it around town, he might get a few people look at him and think “Oh what a cool old car” but that’s about as far as it would go. There`s no utility to it. Just something to show off to a few fairly disinterested people. I would think learning a little heard of and used language would be the same. Getting proficient in it would be nearly impossible due to lack of resources (like finding replacement parts for an old car) and once you reached your goal it wouldn’t pay off because you couldn’t use the language in any practical sense.

Just my 2 cents anyway, but if you want to learn Georgian have at it and good luck.