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Re: pardonner/ perdonner/bzdet/p erdet/po í a/
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> Since I speak no Russian both "perdet" and "bzdet" are mainly visual
> expressions, like hyeroglyphs, so I find no sound as an accompaniment.
But
> there are no smells, either. In Portuguese we have a verb and a word
for
> "fart" that comes close to the "perdet/perdomai" root. It is "peido",
> "peidar" and it apparently belongs to the "talkies" era.
> Jansy Mello
Jansy: a new slant on synaesthesia? In Liverpool we ask "Why do farts
smell?" The answer: "For the benefit of deaf poople."
skb
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> expressions, like hyeroglyphs, so I find no sound as an accompaniment.
But
> there are no smells, either. In Portuguese we have a verb and a word
for
> "fart" that comes close to the "perdet/perdomai" root. It is "peido",
> "peidar" and it apparently belongs to the "talkies" era.
> Jansy Mello
Jansy: a new slant on synaesthesia? In Liverpool we ask "Why do farts
smell?" The answer: "For the benefit of deaf poople."
skb
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