Originally posted by Lowell Goudge Actually in France the month of august does not exist
, no body works in august
Ah, maybe that's where the Ethiopians got their extra month from? The month of ጳጐሜን ain't more than 5 days, but it is still a month!
The Ethiopians enjoy being a bit eccentric even more than the French do, I think. Today is the 25th day of ነሐሴ 2006. Their clock is 6 hours offset from "European time", and they enjoy their own alphabet (which isn't truly an alphabet but rather an alphasyllabary ).
And that should be plenty of reason not to buy a ሆሲረ K-3!
(I have borrowed from the Ge'ez script here - not really used any more outside of the churches. In Amharic the hociR would be written as the ሖሲረ, I think, rather than the Ge'ez "ሆሲረ" mentioned above.)
P.S. My apologies to all users of said scripts. My knowledge of this is rather slim - I did start reading "Amharic for foreign beginners" once, but didn't get through it all...