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:b : the [[practice]] or display of barbarian [[acts]], [[attitudes]], or [[ideas]]

:b : the [[practice]] or display of barbarian [[acts]], [[attitudes]], or [[ideas]]

*2 : an [[idea]], [[act]], or [[expression]] that in [[form]] or use offends against contemporary [[standards]] of good taste or acceptability

*2 : an [[idea]], [[act]], or [[expression]] that in [[form]] or use offends against contemporary [[standards]] of good taste or acceptability

==Description==

==Description==

The [[word]] "'barbarian'" comes into [[English]] from Medieval Latin barbarinus, from [[Latin]] barbaria, from Latin barbarus, from the ancient [[Greek]] word βάρβαρος (bárbaros). The word is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomatopeia onomatopoeic], the bar-bar representing the impression of [[random]] hubbub produced by hearing a [[spoken]] [[language]] that one cannot [[understand]], similar to blah blah and babble in modern English. Related imitative forms are found in other [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages Indo-European languages], such as [[Sanskrit]] बर्बर barbara-, "stammering" or "curly-haired". The earliest attested [[form]] of the word is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycenaean_Greek Mycenaean Greek] pa-pa-ro, written in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_B Linear B] syllabic script. Depending on its use, the term "barbarian" either described a foreign [[individual]] or [[tribe]] whose first [[language]] was not [[Greek]] or a Greek individual or tribe speaking Greek crudely.

The [[word]] "'barbarian'" comes into [[English]] from Medieval Latin barbarinus, from [[Latin]] barbaria, from Latin barbarus, from the ancient [[Greek]] word βάρβαρος (bárbaros). The word is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomatopeia onomatopoeic], the bar-bar representing the impression of [[random]] hubbub produced by hearing a [[spoken]] [[language]] that one cannot [[understand]], similar to blah blah and babble in modern English. Related imitative forms are found in other [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages Indo-European languages], such as [[Sanskrit]] बर्बर barbara-, "stammering" or "curly-haired". The earliest attested [[form]] of the word is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycenaean_Greek Mycenaean Greek] pa-pa-ro, written in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_B Linear B] syllabic script. Depending on its use, the term "barbarian" either described a foreign [[individual]] or [[tribe]] whose first [[language]] was not [[Greek]] or a Greek individual or tribe speaking Greek crudely.