March 11th, 2003, 07:23 PM
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Re: [OT] Plato\'s Pub and Philosophical Society
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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
Actually, no. 'Barbarian' comes from the Greeks immitating what the sound of foreigner's language sounded like to them.
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I stand corrected. There are sources that say it derrives from "bearded" but this seems only to be a rumor. 
A link:
http://www.takeourword.com/Issue010.html
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