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steaktartaar_
3338 days ago
Greek, in fact. Barbarian has it's roots in βάρβαρος, an ancient Greek onomatopoeic for "people who go bar bar bar", or people who don't speak Greek.
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hythloday
3338 days ago
Due to phonetic shifts in the programming language community, we now say that barbarians are people who say "var var var".
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vixen99
3338 days ago
'has its roots'
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