Nice article by the doctor but there is nothing in it which suggests that
men have not been eating cereal grains since they came down from the trees. Our
evolutionary success is tied to the fact that men will eat anything that does
not eat them first.
Man, the hunter, the keen observer of animal behavior, would have certainly
noticed rut, and the regularly timed appearance of animal births after it.
I, personally, have no doubt that seeds and roots were collected to be
eaten long before the idea of agriculture developed. In fact, _why_ would
agriculture have developed at all if men were not collecting and eating what
they later cultivated?
Accordingly, there is no real reason to suppose that the PIE's, at any
stage of their wanderings, ever had a need to borrow terminology for
ejaculation. Whether a given group recognized the connection between internal
ejaculation (coition) and pregnancy or not (I can hardly believe any did not
though they did believe pregnancy could be caused, in addition, by other
agencies, such as the wind), male ejaculate externally as well. You think they
needed to borrow a word from another language of a people practicing
agriculture? I think that is plainly silly.
You are making an unwarranted leap from the particular (gluten rich wheat)
to the general (all cereal grains). Had the English sent the Irish rye, would
they have died in droves?
You seem to want to connect gluten intolerance to the 'noble hunter' but
the truth is, anyone with gluten intolerance is defective since a widely
available source of nutrition is prohibited to them.
Patrick
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Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 1:55
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Subject: Re: [tied] Sard
I think it is fairly obvious that
> > Semitic z-r is cognate with
IE *ser-, 'flow rapidly, *ejaculate).
>
> I think it's fairly
obvious they are loans which are cognate and which
> arrived with the
technology in which they make sense, namely
agriculture.
>
>
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>
> I think it is not obvious at all.
>
> Humans
ate seeds before they ever planted them.
>
No, they
didn't.
http://tech. groups.yahoo. com/group/ cybalist/ message/6703
http://tinyurl. com/2mzntr
We
weren't meant to feed on the seeds of grasses.
> Since all men eat
grain, a loanword were hardly ever be necessary.
From the date most men
began to eat grain, a word for 'fertilize,
conceive' became necessary. The
idea that the male actually has
something to do with reproduction began
with the first agriculture.
Torsten