According to a friend who spends too much time on the internet, we got the word barbarian because people wanted to make fun of German invaders WAAAAAY back in ancienty kinds of times (I forget the time frame because this was told to me during vacation when my brain goes into sleep mode). Back then conquered peoples thought their conquerers' language sounded like this: "Bar bar bar bar. Bar bar? Bar bar bar. Bar."
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