Can you give me some money

After leaving the English language cinema this evening, we happened across the usual old woman speaking in badly pronounced English for money. What was more surprising was the young dark-skinned boy passing around a piece of paper. When I looked, it said:

ქენ იუ გივ მი სამ მანი

which transcribes to can you give me some money. However, instead of learning the phonetically transcribed phrase. The boy, who I believe was a street child was just passing it around.

The phrase reminded me of how I was feeling a month ago learning Georgian and seeing in my head English words written in Georgian letters.