The Fart

The book I'm reading discussed something I thought was funny this morning so I figured I would share. It was a chapter on the proto indo-european language (the original indo-european root language that transformed over time into almost all of the european languages with the exception of Basque). Anyways, paleolinguists can determine, to a certain extent, what the original word was for a certain thing was based on how the modern words relate to each other. Things like numbers, familial names (brother, sister, etc) and words to describe naturally occuring phenomena (night, sky, tree, etc) are still kinda similar in different indo-european languages. All of the things that ancient people needed names for. So, the funny part was that the paleolinguists were able to trace the origins of the word 'fart' back to what it would've been 10,000 years ago. There were actually two different names for two different farts (quiet and loud). 'Perd' was the word for the loud one. I thought that it was pretty funny that scientists got all serious about the word 'fart'.