The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #87199   Message #1626967
Posted By: Wilfried Schaum
14-Dec-05 - 02:18 AM
Thread Name: BS: How Many Mudcat Members are Barbarians?
Subject: RE: BS: How Many Mudcat Members are Barbarians?
No, no, leeneia - barbaros is of Greek origin and denotes all people speaking non-Greek and thus unintelligible languages which sounded to Greek ears all like brr brr.
So being a speaker of classical Latin only having forgotten nearly all my Greek I have to consider this man as a barbarian, too.