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The appropriate area to discuss farting the activity is in Flatulence, but can I suggest that you find reliable sources if you want to include this in that article? Ziggurat 02:35, 23 May 2006 (UTC) perhaps rather than population, diet should be a consideration. i have read online that termites expel the greatest amount of gas of all creatures due to a
I am tempted to nominate this for deletion on the grounds that it is simply a dicdef description of a piece of terminology, and return it to its status as a redirect to Flatulence but I don't know whether it could be expanded into encyclopedia-ness. Does anyone have some thoughts about how this article could be so enhanced? Ziggurat 23:23, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
Please, someone merge this article. It's all fluff, and I don't think anyone has the time or will to write a five-pager on the entymology and noise of a fart. There should just be a fart section in the flatulence article. Fart should be redirected to flatulence. Darkgarlic 14:06, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
If it can be statistically proven that this word is more common among African Americans then that is all the reason in the world to keep this article.
I say merge it with the flatulence article. Also, keep out the suggestion that the word is more common among African Americans-that's completely ridiculous and waters down the already unreliable source that Wikipedia is quickly becoming. GingerGin 07:59, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
The page is now an (incomplete) article on the word "fart". It isn't an article on flatulence; nor is it a mere dicdef.
A parallel example would be articles on sexual intercourse and the word fuck.
This article is still incomplete; in particular, someone with access to OED should go over and expand/correct as necessary.
--EngineerScotty 06:14, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
I agree; it is fine to have articles about words as long as there is enough material. — brighterorange (talk) 14:39, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
"flatulence" is having gas, "flatus" is the gas. "fart" is the sound, the act, etc. some neo-puritans think this is called "to flatulate" but they're wrong on multiple counts....and even if there were a grain of truth, the COMMON WORD for this is "fart", and wiki uses the common word, not rarely used technical jargon.
in summary -- keep hope alive and don't let this article be deleted and redirected by medical think-they-know-it-alls.
Justforasecond 16:25, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
It is _not_ only air, but alot of other stuff as well. Besides that, cool page :) Jordskjelv 18:51, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Given that most of the edits here are vandalism, should the page be protected? --EngineerScotty 02:13, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
I've removed this section ("In Farsi gooz is a loud, usually odor-less fart. Choss is a "silent, but deadly" fart."), as the only online source for it [1] is marked in the URL as satire. Could someone with a knowledge of Farsi please confirm or deny this? Ziggurat 01:50, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
"... Choss is a "silent, but deadly" fart." Also accompanied by a wet sound. These Farsi terms are correct. A "chos khor" is a "fart eater" or someone who penny pinches. 72.50.56.66 (talk) 13:43, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
I'm Iranian and i speak Farsi. the word "Gooz" in Farsi(گوز). is a loud and noisy fart, Gooz can be odor-less or not. But it's always noisy. On the other hand, "Chos" is always silent but odor-full (چس). both of these words are nouns and can be used in slang language, referring to someone or something worthless or bad. they may also combine with some other words to make those words worthless.
for example "Maram" in Farsi means "Faith" and so "Gooz Maram" in farsi means "Unfaithful"!
or "Ba Kelas" in Farsi means "High Class" as in a High class person and "Chos Kelas" in Farsi is used to describe the act of pretending or faking to be high class!
finally , the word "Goozoo" (گوزو) in Farsi is an adjective for "Gooz" and it means someone who farts a lot or someone who is worthless or Butterfingered; and the word "Chosoo" (چسو) in Farsi is an adjective for "Chos" and it means someone who farts a lot, silently and odor-full or someone who is worthless or Butterfingered. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.40.147.41 (talk) 13:06, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
I feel childish suggesting this, but has anyone made an article on armpit farting? i know there is one for the rasberry. How about the fart sound made when you push two hands together in the right way? Sorry, reading this article made me want to ask. --Travlr23 02:45, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
Why remove the image of cultivated fart bacteria?
Please use "may" instead of "may or may not"
I believe since that they are both almost the same thing they should be merged
um can't we redirect the word "fart" to flatulence and then on the flatulence page put one of those "for info on the word 'fart' click here" type things?
I agree & concur & I second the motion about redirecting Fart to Flatulence. For the children and educational value! -Peter in SanDiego, CA, USA = Vid2vid 22:08, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
It has been humourously proposed/declared that: 'Women do NOT fart; They "fluff."' -Peter in SanDiego, CA, USA = Vid2vid 22:08, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
Oh my gosh! I siriusly laughed out loud! That's great! -Lea (talk) 02:06, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
I have noticed an extreme amount of vandalism on this page. It is my idea that we lock it. 67.150.2.240 21:28, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
There is an article empompassing "fart". Eish! Can you redirect this to flatulance? "Fart" seems a bit "uncyclopaedic". T.Neo 20:04, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
In Britain, we use the word "fart" as a term in regards to age as in, "You old fart". I think this usuage of the word also needs to be included here.Seraphim Whipp 23:03, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
The author of the children's book 'Good Families Don't"'s first name is Robert, opposed to Walter which is printed in the article. Any small amount of research on the subject will prove this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.154.83.237 (talk) 01:18, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
Actually guy, it had been corrected in the short time between when I called the error and when you checked. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.154.83.219 (talk) 00:44, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
What do we all think of adding an animation of a fart using stereotypical puff and cloud lines in brown or yellow-green colors, exiting from someone's rear end and slowly dissipating? If we have someone with some Java skill and familiarity with Wikimedia, we could even add a foghorn sound to it.
What does everyone think? Trollaxor (talk) 21:14, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Merge discussion takes place at Talk:Flatulence#Merge.
Wanted to drop a note and apologize for reverting the talk. :( Your conversation looks so much like vandalism, it's almost instinct. Thanks for your understanding. :) -- Matthew Glennon (T/C\D) 00:08, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Why is the TOC on the right hand side? 203.134.124.36 (talk) 07:04, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
This section is almost identical with Flatulence_humor#The assigning of blame. Should we really maintain two lists? I think the list in this article shouldbe replaced by a link to the other. --The very model of a minor general (talk) 11:54, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
my name is suped —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.10.236.69 (talk) 17:07, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
I have been reviewing information about subculture sexual practices that include perdophagy, or the "eating" of farts. It involves a donor farting directly into a passive participant's mouth, after which the the passive participant "chews" the flatus and comments on its taste.
Perdophagy usually occurs peripherally as a part of Coprophilia, but it is sometimes practiced discretely.
Does anyone else have more information on this? The only sources I have are interviews that I conducted over the past year that have not (yet) been published in a peer-reviewed venue. If we had some solid, sourced information we could include this topic in the article—it is a shame to leave it out.
Trollaxor (talk) 08:01, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
I'd like to humbly propose that my "Farting in Public" (as one of Google's first page results for the word "fart") be considered as an external link. Whatya say?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3ejlkzDCuc
-Nalts —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nalts (talk • contribs) 04:58, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
It has long been my unexamined assumption that the term "brain fart" is an eggcorn derived from the medical term infarct or Infarction, a small area of dead tissue caused by circulatory blockage that may occur in the brain or elsewhere. This might well be my own folk etymology, however any confirmatory evidence would be appreciated and could enable this, if true, to be added to the article. 87.81.230.195 (talk) 17:22, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
I'm wondering why this word is not attributed to the Scandinavian language.
In Swedish, the word "fart" means exit. For instance (and this is no joke), exit ramps on highways are labeled "utfart" while entrances are labeled "infart". Since the Scandinavian languages are the oldest Germanic forms (I think) it seems it would be hard not to consider this as the possible origin. No?
Acer rubra (talk) 17:41, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
In German also - Ausfart and Einfart. However, on its own, it does not mean exit, but simply way or journey (which is also true in the Swedish above): it is only an exit with the appropriate (ut or Aus) prefix. I suspect it is cognate with fahren, to travel.
G6JPG (talk) 07:23, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
((editsemiprotected)) Add link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_rock for the word "punk" in the third paragraph. G6JPG (talk) 07:07, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
Done
The article states: "<< PIE *perd [break wind loudly] or *pezd [the same, softly], all of which mean the same thing."
I believe this is inaccurate and that "fart" is from PIE *perd [break wind loudly], while the now-obsolete "fist" is from PIE *pezd [the same, softly]. The term "fist" was current in Early Modern English and meant exactly the same as what comedian George Carlin referred to by the acronym SBD (silent but deadly). This may well have been the distinction made in PIE. Bob99 (talk) 21:54, 30 June 2010 (UTC) Some people believe that FART is an acronym for "Fastly Accellerated Rotten Turbulence". In this belief system, farting only refers to flatulence that is audible. The other kind, which some like to refer to as "silent but deadly", would then be actually known as a FARL, which of course is another acronym for "Fastly Accellerated Rotten Laminar". There is very little evidence that substatiates this belief system. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.96.246.11 (talk) 01:42, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
I was wondering if we should include a disambiguation page for this, since there are so many articles that share similar titles such as F.A.R.T. the Movie and the Norweigan football club FL Fart. Does anyone else see this as a viable option? It seems odd to me that this article is about the word itself, seeing as this isn't Wikitionairy. Apocman (talk) 23:45, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
((editsemiprotected)) FART stand for Festín del Arte Contemporáneo (Contemporary Art Fest). This fest was realized in Guadalajara, Mexico, from april 29 to may 8 2010. FART pretends bring contemporary art to the people, giving a better comprehension of new art manifestations, throughout chats and debates among artists, critics, curators, cultural promoters, art collectors, art gallery owners and spectators. FART had four chats and a workshop, all about contemporary art. In its first edition participated Joaquin Segura, Jorge Mendez Blake, Angela Godoy, Jorge Tejeda, Ruben Mendez, Mariana Munguia, Dolores Garnica, Poncho Arroyo, Ana Alcantar, Susana Rodriguez, Cynthia Gutierrez, Adriana Torres, Lorena Peña Brito, Jorge Hernandez “Posh”, Paula Islas, David Corona and Ricardo Guzman. For more information visit us at: [url redacted] or email me to: [email redacted]. We hope you can join us for the next edition of FART!
Don Juve (talk) 21:18, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
Alveolar gas exchange is the method by which gases are expelled from the body during respiration - why is its page redirected here? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.99.133.37 (talk) 17:25, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
Certainly do not merge it here. Merge to Flatulence or Flatulence humor. 'This article is about the word fart itself', and not the uses or otherwise of it. Benea (talk) 18:53, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
2.89.181.57 (talk) 09:45, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
This article is not very helpful, because it does not tell me what causes farts which is why I looked it up! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.30.28.101 (talk) 10:13, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
When people are looking for the word fart, they'll most likely be looking for the action, not the history of the word. The action is explained on flatulence, which is why I think we should just redirect the article to flatulence. Also the article is kind of telling a lot of the etymology of the word, like a dictionary, and Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Articles like Fuck and Shit show a little of the etymology, which is fine, but they do not show a lot, like fart. All they word fart with a suffix (farted, farting) except for farter, redirect to flatulence. Atterion(Talk|Contribs) 19:11, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
The picture of the Pope in the beginning is VERY offensive to the Roman Catholic Church and if someone does not remove it soon I will sue for anti race. THAT IS VERY offensive. Fawtzzz (talk) 19:37, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
[กำขี้ดีกว่ากำตด kam khi di kwa kam tot] Error: ((Lang-xx)): text has italic markup (help) is a proverbial saying translated into the English llanguage as "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush," It is constructed of Thai words meaning a handful or fistful of waste product is better than a handful or fistful of gaseous anal discharge[1].
Paragraph one reads "...Norse, Slavic and also Greek and Sanskr it." which I assume is supposed to read "...Greek and Sanskrit".
The history section seems to broadly say "Early on it was not offensive. And then it was. And then it wasn't." I suppose it is possible for that to be how it really is, but it is difficult to understand its vulgarity without knowing what motivated that interpretation. --76.120.46.145 (talk) 07:31, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
"Farting" redirects to flatulence" . So should "fart". this page should be moved to "Fart (term)", since more people would be looking for the bodily element, not the term itself. Ticklewickleukulele (talk) 00:42, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
The following edit changed "Fart is an English language vulgarism" to "Fart is an English language onomatopoeia", which is absolutely false! Please revise. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fart&diff=492190336&oldid=490730402 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.135.103.86 (talk) 05:22, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
'Vulgarism' is an opinion / judgement of the term rather than a description, and disallowed by editing rules. Onomatopoeia on the other hand is objectively descriptive in its description. Timber92 (talk) 06:21, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
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In Italian, "pettare" is wrong. Right spelling could be "petare" with one t, but this verb does not exist. You should use instead the phrase "fare un peto" (that is, "to make a fart"). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fedespan (talk • contribs) 13:20, 14 June 2013
Done Thank you! Citrusbowler (talk) (contribs) (email me) 21:47, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
Farting is almost certainly a way of male bonding. For example, in the Western world, if a group of young boys, or even men, sleep together in a tent or a confined environment, farting is an an acceptable practice, even though the other males, might express disgust at the fart, and then go on to produce a more profound fart, to try to outdo their fellows. In this male ritual, there appears to be two simple rules which determine the quality of the fart: One is which is the smelliest, and the other is which is the loudest, or more sustained. However, social mores eventually prevail, and most men are able to desist from their farting festivals when they forge relationships with girlfriends and wives. It does not need a citation or an academic study to tell us that women generally are not impressed by the social farting that males engage in. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cobo4080 (talk • contribs) 20:37, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
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fart is gross Masulzen (talk) 21:10, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
Not done gross is 144 so it should be "are", not "is" - Arjayay (talk) 22:16, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
Not sure about the accuracy, or otherwise, of this article, mainly due to shifting standards. It claims that the word is "generally considered" to be unsuitable in formal situations... but where is the evidence to show that this is the case? Indeed, in our increasingly informal societies, I am not sure what a "formal situation" would be anymore. Particularly given that some business presentations/conferences nowadays use what would considered to be "swearing" of a far "more severe" nature than "fart". While sometimes considered to be vulgar, the word occasionally appears even in children's television. As regards "formal situations", are business meetings "formal situations" or does that mean the classroom or job interviews? Even on job interviews, whilst the advice generally appears to be "do not swear" (and there is some doubt as to whether "fart" is generally considered to be swearing) I have heard of at least one occasion on which a candidate in a job interview reports having got the job after using swearing in the interview. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aspaa (talk • contribs) 17:38, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
The word fart comes from the english dictionary, and is commonly used to refer to flatulence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.66.200.31 (talk) 16:10, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved as proposed. Consensus is that the primary topic is the topic itself, not the word. (non-admin closure) Bradv 03:52, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
Fart → Fart (word) – fart should redirect to flatulence. more people will be looking for that typing it in, than the word. Voortle (talk) 17:47, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
Joking doesn't mean that you have lower standards!
Replace "word" with "informalism".
You've locked your stupidity to eternity. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:587:4114:FB59:C9F3:AA31:33A8:C495 (talk) 08:41, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
From the "Vulgarity and offensiveness" section:
Someone has flagged this statement as "{citation needed}". Seriously? You really need a citation to confirm that some people might find the phrase "Who shit?" directed at them to be offensive? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.95.43.253 (talk • contribs) 01:04, August 6, 2021 (UTC)
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Please include the references to fart in languages as oppose to peter from the French. In Swedish utfart means exit, fart in this sense clearly meaning opening. Infart is an entrance. It’s not possible to have a discussion on the word Fart in English and not include this information, over the cited Greek Russian and French words which have no etymology connection whatsoever with Fart. 2001:2002:51E0:2883:FC4C:200A:96A3:5DA4 (talk) 18:15, 28 August 2021 (UTC)