Just let them have their fun
Just let them have their fun
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Is this a Hercules/Heracles joke?
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I believe so, but in addition it is also a "the original meaning of 'barbarian' is non-Greek person" joke.
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For the people who don’t get it: To the Greeks (who primarily spoke Greek and Latin,) Germanic and proto European languages (like old English) sounded funny. The Greeks joked that it sounded like “barbar barbar” which is basically the Greek version of “blah blah blah blah”. So the people who spoke those foreign languages got referred to as barbarians.
It was basically used as a pejorative. It was a way for Greeks to discriminate against non-Greeks.
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I love daily double jokes!
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I mainly took it as a joke on all the awful things that happen around Heracles. The DM is stopping the history buff from warning them.
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I took it to mean the DM was going to start throwing all the Herculean labors at them, then have the characters wife accidentally poison him, so that he burns himself alive on his own pyre.
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It's also a Greek tragedy so...that
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Doesn't ”Barbarian“ mean ”Non-Greek“ which was used as an insult? What is a Greek Non-Greek
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It means they speak another language. It's onomatopoeia for how they heard foreign languages bar bar bar, so they became the barbarians, those that speak bar bar.
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Etymology aside, the Barbarian D&D class fits Heracles perfectly well
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Anime title?
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Google says Stella Jogakuin Koutou-ka C³-bu, which checks out
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