From: bellemarecd@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/8/2021 10:08 PM, Kentucky Jelly Buddha wrote:   
   > Beaver Fever wrote:   
      
   >> I am watching this now and not quite clear on the concept   
      
   >> https://youtu.be/Di5erb47ry4   
      
   > According to Murray Bookchin (I was one of his   
   > students) it was because the Romans hearing them   
   > talk thought their language sounded like   
   > "bah-bah-bah." No kidding.   
      
   It was a Greek word (hoi barbaroi) that the Romans borrowed.  The story   
   was that those crazy foreign lingos sounded like "barbarbar".   
      
   I think the Romans were barbaroi to the Greeks, at least until they   
   occupied Greece.   
      
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