Re: Mitanni and Matsya

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

>
> To be fair, I *think* that it was Jens who coined that one:
> 'I mean of course words that correspond to words, not
> monkey-help-die-begin = apple or whatever you have been
> serving us in the past', at
> <http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/39466>.
>
> But <'store-done repeatedly-place' = 'connubial bed'> and
> <'balls-compacted' = 'buttocks'> can be found at
> <http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2803/ProtoLanguage-
> Monosyllables.htm>
> and are just as bad.

Yes, and there is a large, and seemingly disproportionate,
number of monosyllables on that same page referring to the
breasts, penis, erect and otherwise, scrotum, vagina, anus,
buttocks, etc.

Either our earliest human ancestors were extremely obsessed
with the like, or else just Patrick was, sitting alone in
his study for so many years pondering the proto-language.

No wonder his nuts are so pale!

David