Originally published at: Sex, meth and flatulence in this week's dubious tabloids | Boing Boing
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All three at once?
Only got yourself to blame.
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Apropos of nothing, except that I’m eating breakfast at my desk, “fart” is one oldest words in the English language. It entered into the language from the Proto Indo-European “perd,” which means “to break wind loudly” (as opposed to pezd, to break wind softly). In Old English the word became “feortan,” in Old Saxon it was “fertan,” in Sanskrit it was “pardate,” and in Old Norse it was “ferta.” In Latin the word became “pēdere” and here we can see the root linking it to “partridge,” a bird which probably got its name from the whirring sound of its wings-- a “farting bird.”
The way the root word for “fart” branched out is kind of interesting. In Middle English a “fretchard” was a disagreeable person, like “an old fart.” Fart jokes are probably as old as the word itself. In English Shakespeare’s plays are littered with fart references. Act III of A Comedy of Errors Dromio of Ephesus states, “A man may break a word with you, sir: and words are but wind ; Ay, and break it in your face, so he break it not behind.” According to documents from the time period, at the moment of the delivery of that line a stage hand made a farting sound in the wings of the theater to highlight the joke. Shakespeare did love his puns.
Ah, done with breakfast. Let the day begin.
ETA: “Fuck” and “beer” are also very old words. Beer and farting can go together, and beer and fucking. Hopefully not fucking and farting, but . . . Rule 34.
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neat, went and looked, that’s the root of the word peto in italian (pedere)…
My favorite is the Italian term for an SBD… loffa.
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This is a great site for this sort of thing:
https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/lex/semantic
Where you can learn that “penis” and “pencil” share a root word, as do “orchid,” “orbit,” and “testicle.”
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Sex, meth and flatulence; it is the feel good hit of the summer.
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I was thinking it is a great name for a band…
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