As Georgia modernizes, the meaning of bablo is shifting. With the rise of cryptocurrencies and digital banking, some younger users have started using bablo ironically to refer to crypto wallets. "Sheni Bitcoin babloa?" (Is your Bitcoin bablo?).
Furthermore, the popular Georgian payment app BOG (Bank of Georgia) has integrated slang into its advertising. A recent ad showed a teenager scanning a QR code and the text popping up: "Bablo movida!" (The bablo has arrived!). The bank recognized that to speak Qartulad to the youth, you must speak bablo. Bablo Qartulad
If you want to speak Qartulad like a local, here is your cheat sheet for bablo. As Georgia modernizes, the meaning of bablo is shifting
If you want to hear Bablo Qartulad spoken in its purest form, you do not go to a language school. You turn on Georgian rap music. Furthermore, the popular Georgian payment app BOG (Bank