Dinka’s Vocabulary DOB 4/29/2003 – 3/11/2022 9:15 am.
I forgot some, I’m sure. It is so quiet without him. Dinka knew when to use these words. He isn’t here for us to scramble an egg for breakfast or to share our dinners with. He was such a character. He liked to snuggle on my stomach. Tickle himself with his spoon. Shake balls with bells inside and ring a bell for treats. He liked fancy cheeses, meat, grapes, lobster legs and more. He was so sweet.
- So sorry
- Owe! Don’t bite
- Bad boy
- Baby boy
- Good boy
- I love you
- Hello, hello baby
- Hello precious
- Hello Marc (when Marc came home)
- Mummy (calls me to come)
- Hello Mummy
- Sherry
- Want to come to Sherry?
- You wanna come to Sherry?
- Marc (especially when Marc fails to wake up)
- Bye bye (when we left home)
- Here we go
- Oh! Shit! (When we dropped things)
- Owe! Oh! Shit Dinka
- Well? (in a demanding tone)
- What you doing?
- Stop that
- Peeka boo
- I see you
- OK
- Uh oh
- Ah haa (agreement sound every time Marc told me something)
- Hugh?
- Ooph (effort grunt)
- Beep beep beep (microwave ping)
- Wee (smoke alarm)
- Laughing noise
- Achoo!
- Cough noise
- Cluck cluck (of tongue)
- Pop (noise)
- Toy
- Yum Yum
- Whee! Wh wh wheee! (like piggy commercial)
- Oink
- Quack (duck sound)
- Beek beek
- Agusta
- Hoka Hey (Lacota word)
- Meowmee (Mummy with cat meow)
- Meo oeow oew (Dinka word for come here like a cat) April 2005
- Me me me me me (fast)
- Happy birthday to (he has us trained to sing it when he plays his music toy)
- Happy bird day
- I don’t care
- Yes you are
- What do you say goose?
- Pretty bird
- Give me a kiss
- Kiss noise
- I’ll do it
- Precious
- You’re precious
- Come on precious
- Look at me
- Oh! come on
- What the heck
- Let me see your beak
- Your welcome
- Now
- All right
- You want to come up?
- Right now
- Dinka
- Dinka bird
- Dinka’s smart
- Oh! Dinka
- Come here baby
- What do you want Dinka?
- Dinka! Stop that
- Oh my God!
- What can I say?
- What do you want?
- Cuckoo (like a bird call)
- Coffee
- Cookie
- Schee or Chee (for cheese)
- Cereal
- Tell you what…
- There you are
- You want…
- You want have some more?
- Egg
- Want egg
- Dinka want egg
- I want egg, want egg
- Why you so quiet?
- What do you want to drink?
- What do you want to drink now?
- What do you want to drink, ginger ale?
- Do you want the ginger ale?
- I don’t like to drink
Quite a vocabulary. I guess he like those eggs. I think it was sweet of him to say Bye Bye. I’m sorry for the quiet.
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Scrambled eggs were one of his favorites. The quiet when I come home is the hardest. There is no one to greet us.
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😦
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Amazing vocabulary!! He must have really enjoyed his life!
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I think he did. He made lots of happy peeps. We played with him a lot.
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Wow, very impressive, Sherry! I like how he imitated noises, like the cat’s meow, as well as words. And #18 made me laugh. 😀 I’m going to share this list with my parrot-loving son.
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🙂 Parrots listen to everything. Just like children.
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Good Morning Sherry, Reading Dinka’s Vocabulary and seeing in the recollection of him the life you lived together and now your heartbreak brought to mind Maurice Sendak’s words as his dog was dying “Please don’t go, we love you so!” My heart goes out to you and Marc. With Love Linda
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Thank you so much for your kind words, Linda. Love to you too.
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I am sorry you will miss him
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I miss Dinka as much as I would miss a child of mine. Thanks Derrick
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His vocabulary was wonderful — a sure sign of the interaction you had. I was pretty impressed with his food preferences, too. I’ve not been around parrots, and didn’t realize their taste could be so wide-ranging!
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If he wanted me, he called out Mummy. I didn’t teach him that word. If he didn’t like a food, he threw it on the floor. Sometimes we tried to make him eat fruit while we ate fruit and cheese. He wanted cheese and threw the fruit away. He ate all sorts of things.
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Such an intelligent little parrot!
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He was indeed. Thanks Anne.
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Wow, that’s some vocabulary – it will certainly be very quiet without him.
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Especially quiet in the morning. 😦
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