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Words Part III

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T and one of his many beloved cars that he likes to sing about Wow, I never would have thought it would take three posts to list T's Sidamic words that we came to understand. He must have taught us more than I realized. There were many more things he said or sang that I never quite figured out. Like when he would stand in the street and say three commands and then take off. Clearly his words for 'on your mark, get set, GO!'. He doesn't remember any more, and I was never clear on what he was saying. Unfortunately if we ever asked him to repeat so we could understand, he would just get angry and clam up, so we had to be good at hearing clearly the first time through, and then being able to repeat it without butchering it. Enni: or ahenny -- he said it both ways: Look! Probably Sidamic. I didn't hear this at first -- he was probably home three weeks before he started using this word. He probably didn't care at first if I was proud of him, but eventually he wan