Barbarian

[passionandparadox]

Discussing Greek philosophy, my professor pointed out the etymology of this word: "It's from aliens speaking nonesense, 'bar bar bar!'"

Barbarian (etym,dict)

from Gk. barbaros "foreign, strange, ignorant," from PIE base *barbar- echoic of unintelligible speech of foreigners (cf. Skt. barbara- "stammering," also "non-Aryan").

[Slava]

Discussing Greek philosophy, my professor pointed out the etymology of this word: "It's from aliens speaking nonesense, 'bar bar bar!'"

Here's Dr. Goodword's write up: http://www.alphadictionary.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=2017

Perhaps it's an appropriate date for this word, as someone I know was born then. A few years earlier, but....