Is there any difference in meaning or nuance when the adjective follows the noun in Georgian?

Many languages allow the order of adjectives compared to nouns to vary, but for different reasons:

Some languages have very free word order in which case there is little difference between adj + noun and noun + adj.
Some languages, the Romance languages are a good example, favour one order, noun + adj but also allow the other order adj + noun on at least some nouns. But when this is done the meaning of the adjective will be different, or at least have a different enough nuance that a translation into another language will choose a different word to map it to.

My question is: In the Georgian languages which normally has adj + noun are instances of noun + adj a case of 1. above, or of 2. ?

(The example of noun + adj* I saw was "პიცი პატარა" (pitsi patara). "პიცი" (pitsi) means "pizza" and "პატარა" (patara) means "small".)

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asked Dec 17, 2011 at 10:40

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This is language specific. I know there isn't a Georgian SE for you to post this in, but since this question isn't cross-linguistic, maybe you want to rephrase it so it fits the "wide" point of view of the Linguistics SE?
– mollyocr
Dec 19, 2011 at 21:58
I can't think of any way to change it into wider point of view a question. It would be a shame to remove it from a site suffering so badly of lack of questions )-:
– hippietrail
Dec 20, 2011 at 18:16
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What about asking something related to parameters, as in this question about French?
– Otavio Macedo
Dec 20, 2011 at 19:30
I don't know much about parameters really though I get what it means in principle. In fact I found that question about French quite difficult to read.
– hippietrail
Dec 20, 2011 at 19:44
While we apparently have a no single-language questions rule, it has been questioned on meta in September 2011 with seemingly no support! I have therefore asked a new question about this rule on meta: What's the reasoning behind our policy against questions on a single language, and is it good?
– hippietrail
Jan 25, 2012 at 9:13

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