Yes! "The Greeks used the term barbarian for all non-Greek-speaking people, including the Egyptians, Persians, Medes and Phoenicians, emphasizing their otherness. According to Greek writers, this was because the language they spoke sounded to Greeks like gibberish represented by the sounds "bar..bar..;" the alleged root of the word bárbaros, which is an echomimetic or onomatopoeic word."
18 Comments
Drunemeton@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1y
I’d venture “Yadda Yadda” since we can do multisyllabic utterances.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
Ratta Ratta?
https://youtu.be/g_mrSn3PGwM?si=nzDQ0Gjrm03oMLUN
ChilledPeppers@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
"Ara ara"
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y
According to the ancient Greeks, we would be bar-bars.
funkajunk@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 1y
Barbarians?
NegentropicBoy@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
Yes! "The Greeks used the term barbarian for all non-Greek-speaking people, including the Egyptians, Persians, Medes and Phoenicians, emphasizing their otherness. According to Greek writers, this was because the language they spoke sounded to Greeks like gibberish represented by the sounds "bar..bar..;" the alleged root of the word bárbaros, which is an echomimetic or onomatopoeic word."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarian
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Wow. So even thousands of years ago humans were racist assholes demeaning others for speaking a different language.
See America? You're not special.
similideano@sopuli.xyz · 14 pts · 1y
Well, at least those other humans
fubo@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
Blahblahrians!
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 13 pts · 1y
"But you yadda-yadda'd the best part!"
"No; I mentioned the bisque."
Zahille7@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
"Who hasn't yadda-yadda'd sex?"
db2@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
A human is a derpderp. Source: November 5 2024
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
I'd say it's more of a Bwaahh
Ioughttamow@fedia.io · 4 pts · 1y
Blah blah was the first thing my second kid said, so checks out
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Hasn't even spoken a word, and already sick of how much everybody else talks. Your kid is either going to be a president, or a serial killer.
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1y
Non main character humans would be rhubarb-rhubarbs.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
Waah-wah-wah-wah-Waaah, à la Charlie Brown adults.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Or you could use the word we use most
A fuck-fuck