Wednesday, March 30, 2011

ODA BITDI!

Packing for LA, Marash Girl feels a sense of mounting excitement as she completes task after task, and with two words, intones a phrase that her ancestors in Marash must have sung for centuries:  Oda bitdi! A joyous sense of accomplishment accompanies those two words:  that (too)  is done!  Can translate the words but not the feeling of happiness and accomplishment that the words convey.

1 comment:

  1. Oda bitdi -- so you can remember these words from your grandparents!

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