• AllNewTypeFace
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    9 months ago

    Doesn’t that mean “mute”, as in “their non-Slavic language sounds like gibberish to us”?

    • Dieguito 🦝@feddit.it
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      9 months ago

      I didn’t know it and you are absolutely right! Like in ancient Greek “βάρβαρος” (barbarian) which was used to design people who couldn’t speak properly and were just babbling.