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Aziz Faarah
@azizfaarah
IT Project Mgr | Building @KoorArchives
Toronto CA, Hargeisa SL
Joined January 2012
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    There’s a Somali saying that the ear is older than the eye (dhegta ayaa ka da’ weyn isha). Through oral tradition we learn about people and places we’ll never see. And in the womb, we hear the outside world before we ever lay eyes on it. So much wisdom in a simple phrase.
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    Putting my daughter to bed and she said ‘almost forgot my sign!’
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    My daughter listed her Ramadan goals.
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    Pronouncing ح as خ is islamophobic
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    Ghana fans chanting URUGUAY HOME and KOREA KOREA they celebrating this like a win. Not the revenge they wanted but it’s the one they got 😂😂
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    New colleague just introduced himself as Mookie on the team call, his name is Mukhtar. Might call in sick for the rest of the day.
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    No context Somali translations
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    This Somali letter was written 87 years ago in far wadaad, a since forgotten arabic based script. Let’s read it together.
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    Somali is a language shaped by nomadic life and can describe travel, time & weather in ways English can’t. With words like sahay (food you take to go on a trip), guurayn (travelling at night), darraad (day before yesterday), saxansaxo (a cool sweet breeze that comes before rain).
    Non-native English Speakers, what’s a word from your language that you think is perfect that doesn’t have an English equivalent? Take us to church.
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    Explaining to my daughter that she can call me aabo since I am her aabo but that I (aabo) can also say aabo back, without implying that she’s my aabo.
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    It must have been introduced by Arabs because it’s inconceivable that Ethiopians, Somalis and others would make use of a tree native to their region. All other names like caday in Somali must be a lie too.
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    Animals in Somali series, starting with mammals 🐒🐱🦒
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    There are 100+ ways to say camel in Somali, we find words for what we love and value.
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    Nobody: Diaspora: can’t wait to go home and and give back...but also get rich, have maids, live in a gated community and of course travel.