Comments on: Difference Between “Barbarous” and “Barbaric”? http://www.dailywritingtips.com/difference-between-%e2%80%9cbarbarous%e2%80%9d-and-%e2%80%9cbarbaric%e2%80%9d/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:29:22 +0000 hourly 1 By: Uldis http://www.dailywritingtips.com/difference-between-%e2%80%9cbarbarous%e2%80%9d-and-%e2%80%9cbarbaric%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-217567 Uldis Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:41:56 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=4139#comment-217567 Brad, There is another layer between antiquity and today - Christian. Lot of people, especially in Middle Ages, didn't know anything about Ancient Greeks or Romans. They knew the list of Christian saints very well, however. St.Barbara, a protectress against fire and lightning, was here. So then name today has nothing to do with its antique meaning except the origin long forgotten. Brad,
There is another layer between antiquity and today – Christian. Lot of people, especially in Middle Ages, didn’t know anything about Ancient Greeks or Romans. They knew the list of Christian saints very well, however. St.Barbara, a protectress against fire and lightning, was here. So then name today has nothing to do with its antique meaning except the origin long forgotten.

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]]> By: Brad K. http://www.dailywritingtips.com/difference-between-%e2%80%9cbarbarous%e2%80%9d-and-%e2%80%9cbarbaric%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-217054 Brad K. Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:16:59 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=4139#comment-217054 I may have actually used a variant, barbarity, as well. I am glad to know the Saracen or Berber connotation. I was getting worried there that you would discus barbarian, barbaric, and barbarous, and not the Barbary Pirates. Which I guess were just Saracen raiders from the Barbary Coast. No, wait. That was a John Wayne movie, and part of that happened in California. Times just don't change that much, do they? California is still walking away with people's money and squandering it in a brutal and uncivilized fashion. I 'spose next we will be calling the US Capitol Building a Barbary Tower. I did get the right capitol, didn't I? Capital being an asset of wealth or life (as in capital punishment) or the US Federal Government, and capitol being the building housing a state legislature. I was pretty sure it wasn't the Captal Building, since Captal (Lat. capitalis, first, chief ), was a medieval feudal title in Gascony. But - what does that have to do with Barbara and Barbie, two names seldom linked with brutal, uncivilized behavior? OK, so there might be some debate about certain individuals named Barbara, but still. And then there is that craftsman with the bloody rag would about a white pole to mark his shop. The one with wicked blades and classic devices to maintain an edge you could . . . shave with! The barber. Does barber come from foreigner, or from brutal and uncivilized . . No, I see it comes from Barbour, old French for beard. Maybe an obscure snipe at foreigner, again? Now, Barb Dillingham, in Iowa, didn't grow a beard, well, except he did that once for the Everly, IA Centennial. But otherwise I don't know any Barbara or Barbie that has a beard. Aside from a couple of memorable dates, most haven't been brutal, either, though those occasions might have had something to do with alcohol consumption. So I don't anymore. Date Barbara's or Barbie's, that is. Or Barb Dillingham. I may have actually used a variant, barbarity, as well. I am glad to know the Saracen or Berber connotation. I was getting worried there that you would discus barbarian, barbaric, and barbarous, and not the Barbary Pirates. Which I guess were just Saracen raiders from the Barbary Coast.

No, wait. That was a John Wayne movie, and part of that happened in California. Times just don’t change that much, do they? California is still walking away with people’s money and squandering it in a brutal and uncivilized fashion. I ‘spose next we will be calling the US Capitol Building a Barbary Tower.

I did get the right capitol, didn’t I? Capital being an asset of wealth or life (as in capital punishment) or the US Federal Government, and capitol being the building housing a state legislature.

I was pretty sure it wasn’t the Captal Building, since Captal (Lat. capitalis, first, chief ), was a medieval feudal title in Gascony.

But – what does that have to do with Barbara and Barbie, two names seldom linked with brutal, uncivilized behavior? OK, so there might be some debate about certain individuals named Barbara, but still.

And then there is that craftsman with the bloody rag would about a white pole to mark his shop. The one with wicked blades and classic devices to maintain an edge you could . . . shave with! The barber. Does barber come from foreigner, or from brutal and uncivilized . . No, I see it comes from Barbour, old French for beard. Maybe an obscure snipe at foreigner, again?

Now, Barb Dillingham, in Iowa, didn’t grow a beard, well, except he did that once for the Everly, IA Centennial. But otherwise I don’t know any Barbara or Barbie that has a beard. Aside from a couple of memorable dates, most haven’t been brutal, either, though those occasions might have had something to do with alcohol consumption. So I don’t anymore. Date Barbara’s or Barbie’s, that is. Or Barb Dillingham.

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