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10 International Words for Fart

Captain Zoom

15:00 / 22.06.02

For your amusement.

Afrikaans - maagwind
Israeli - nuhfeechah
Japanese - he
Cantonese/Chinese - fang
German - furz
Bantu - lu-suzi
Hindi - pud
Polish - pierdzenic
Italian - peto
Russian - perdun

Zoom.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

18:40 / 22.06.02

What language is Zoom a word for fart in?

Billy Corgan

20:13 / 22.06.02

This might be the most embarassing thread ever to be started on Barbelith. Way to go.

Mourne Kransky

14:38 / 23.06.02

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Braille for fart

Yagg

18:43 / 23.06.02

PTHPTHPTHPTHPTHPTHPTHPTHPTHPTHPTHPTHPHTTTHTHTHTHTHTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!

parp.

Bottom-burp. Although it's more a euphemistic term than a word.

captain piss

21:40 / 23.06.02

It's Pacha here. In portuguese there's two: "peido" e "pum". The scientifical one is "flatos".
God. I don't know why I contributed to this.

grant

16:17 / 24.06.02

Actually, that Afrikaans is, literally, "make-wind," which is rather polite. Among friends, "pups" will do (or is it "pumps"?). Pronounced "poo-UPSS", rather quickly.

True trivia fact: "Pumpernickel" bread literally translates to "devil farts."
Apparently, its rich blackness was originally known as a source for extreme flatulence.

RiffRaff

21:09 / 25.06.02

Does it say something about the Japanese that it's just a two-letter word? Is it that common a concept over there?

--Riff

Mr Tricks

21:46 / 25.06.02

in Spanish it's "peo" pe-Oh (with the "p" pronounced almost like a "B" and a Long "OH"

if you made a fart you would "throw" it...

Olulabelle

16:15 / 04.10.06

Bump

I just found this is the bowels of Barbelith. A-ho ho.

I was looking for the Lost for words thread and I found this. I think it had potential.

HCE

16:17 / 04.10.06

Two words for it in Farsi: gooz and chos (long O in chos).

Mistoffelees

18:57 / 04.10.06

There´s this thelemic group in Germany, that had a very embarrasing typo in their translation of the book of the law, which they put up on the internet.

They translated in my coiling there is joy. as In meinen Winden ist Freude, instead of in meinem Winden...

And that translates back as In my winds there is joy.

Jimbo

20:35 / 04.10.06

When you fart on a cold day why can't you see the steam like you do when you breath?

Mistoffelees

20:43 / 04.10.06

Have you tried it without the pants, Jimbo?

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

20:50 / 04.10.06

Um, Mist, that's probably not legal. Decency laws, y'know.

Mistoffelees

21:11 / 04.10.06

Humbug! Science must not be hindered and the search for truth shall prevail!

And you don´t have to drop them on Trafalgar Square, some less populated area is scientific sound too. Don´t forget to put your findings on youtube.

astrojax69

22:15 / 04.10.06

Don´t forget to put your findings on youtube

no, please don't remember is the correct version of this edict...?

i like the polish word. a lot. very onomatopaeic. i suspect the end 'c' is pronounced as a 'ch', more or less? anyone can shed light?

Mistoffelees

22:24 / 04.10.06

Some months ago, I talked to a polish acquaintance and according to him, the polish language has about twenty different ch, sh, sch, tch, etc sounds. He then gave a tongue twister as an example, which was very impressive.

Now, this has gotta be the most mature thread ever on B.

Has anyone ever tried to ignite one's own flatulence with a lighter, like they do it in the movies? Does it work?

Princess

09:55 / 05.10.06

I have ignited my own flatus only three times, all of them on Boxing Day. I did set a match next the seat of my jeans and a greenish\yellow flame was seen to flutter across the material.

Although I'm told it can go wrong and you just explode like cows do.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

13:05 / 05.10.06

On the Mythbusters goof reel, they showed the unaired segment where Adam and Jamie tried the lighting of the flatus.

And much to my equal horror and amazement, a flame can be produced.

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