mafoo.org.uk/selfdefined
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/fooflington/selfdefined.git synced 2025-06-09 04:25:12 +00:00
Code Issues Projects Releases Wiki Activity

✍️ Edited some spacing issues and misspelling

Browse Source
This commit is contained in:
tatianamac 2020-02-13 17:43:08 +08:00
parent 61e2e9fde7
commit 815989bbe0
1 changed files with 2 additions and 3 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

3
11ty/definitions/barbaric.md
View File

@ -19,10 +19,9 @@ alt_words:
---
something which is obscenely cruel; primitive; unsophisticated
#### Issues
Barbarian originates from the Greek word *bárbaros* meaning "babbler", to denote the "unintelligle sounds" (_"bar bar bar"_ ) made by foreign speakers.
Barbarian originates from the Greek word *bárbaros* meaning "babbler", to denote the "unintelligible sounds" (_"bar bar bar"_) made by foreign speakers.
Similar words exist in many other languages, for the identical purpose labeling a "strange"/"foreign" person/culture.
In modern day usage, you can notice this rhetoric being employed almost always for the purpose of demonizing "foreign" (more often than not from the global south) cultures - cultures that need to be civilized;