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GeneralMayhem
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Pfizer is testing a pill that, if successful, coul...
Similarly, the word "barbarian" comes from the ancient Greeks describing the people who lived around them as sounding like they were saying "bar bar bar".
nielsole
on April 27, 2021
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That's amazing. Wiktionary backs you up on this and compares it to "bla bla bla".
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B2%CE%AC%CF%81%CE%B2%CE...
umeshunni
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Funny, I always thought it came from the word Barba (hair/beard) because they considered them uncultured and unshaven.
sorokod
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Greeks were into beards big time.
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