https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2014/02/its-a-barbaric-world-so-lets-learn-to-speak-barbarian.html What's happening to your library? Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:54:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2014/02/its-a-barbaric-world-so-lets-learn-to-speak-barbarian.html#comment-5924 Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:54:36 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?p=6965#comment-5924 The noun ‘barbarian’ is from late 14c and means a “person speaking a language different from one’s own”. I am surprised that you advocate our taking up a language that is defined from the Greek “barbaros” as: “foreign, strange, ignorant”. Also, when applied to a “native of the Barbary coast”, it meant a “rude, wild person”. There are enough ignorant, rude, wild people about without library folk and the public joining them. I hereby confiscate your Barbarian Dictionary, Ian, which is only one of the possible sanctions that might be applied should you persist. #SheSaidSternly

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