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Dear WW: I can remember at skinnydip pond seeing two
big kids hold flatulent fatso, and hold lighted match near
the orifice. A bluish and yellow flame went both ways,
fatso screamed, and all the little kids thought it hilarious.
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Gotta watch that flatulence around kids. They seem to find it to be the most amusing of all kinds of humor.
..and then it mutates, somehow, into guy humor.
(not much of a stretch there)
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not much of a stretch
Hey! You're just jealous because we're more in touch with our inner child.
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And what might the penalty be for autopedophily?
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..and then it mutates, somehow, into guy humor.
Ungulents. <eg>
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Taking this excess of gas back to Proto-Indo-European, philologists reconstruct two roots for 'fart': *perd- 'to fart loudly' (*prdi-s whence OE feortan and Welsh rhech 'fart') and *pezd- 'to pass wind softly' whence Greek bdeo, Latin pedo 'to fart', podex 'butt, behind', pedis 'louse'. The Latin podex also gives the German words der Podex and der Popo 'butt'.
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We see this same r<>z,s correspondence in the Latin 1st/2nd declension genitive plural endings -arum/orum which was from an earlier -asum/osum, as well as in the French chaise form chaire. But I wonder, I've heard of IE satem and centum languages and Celtic P and Q languages. Are there IE perd- and pezd- languages?
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Are there IE perd- and pezd- languages?
Faldage-- I know what you mean. I thought of Latin rhotacization, the -Vsum/-Vzum/-Vrum of the genitive plural. Also you see this in honos, honor. As for the -r-/-z- alternation, I had to take a look at the handbooks on this one. Brugmann reconstructed a series of fricatives s, z, S, and Z (as well as þ, and ð) for PIE, but most IEists today only have -s- (~ -z- as an allophone).
The weird thing about chaire ~ chaise is that the 'r' in kathedra yielded an 's', the opposite of the Latin direction.
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