• @[email protected]
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    271 year ago

    Doesn’t ”Barbarian“ mean ”Non-Greek“ which was used as an insult? What is a Greek Non-Greek

    • @Madison420
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      131 year ago

      It means they speak another language. It’s onomatopoeia for how they heard foreign languages bar bar bar, so they became the barbarians, those that speak bar bar.