One interpretation of "barbarism" refers to the uncultured and violent peoples of the past.
The etymology of barbarism takes us to the Latin word barbarismus , in turn derived from the Greek barbarismós . The term has various uses depending on the context.
Associated with barbarism
In colloquial language , barbarism is associated with barbarism , in the sense of the absence of civility or culture. It can also refer to an barbarity : a foolish, rude or out of place expression.
For example: “The actor grew up in an environment of barbarism that was not healthy for his emotional development,” “I will not tolerate such barbarism on my honor!” >, “Violence is an act of barbarism that should offend us as a community.”
In the first example we talk about an actor whose childhood did not provide him with the harmony and the necessary conditions to grow up healthily, to become a balanced person. Barbarism in this case signals the opposite of civilization , of all those characteristics that we associate with modern life, from individual behavior to access to resources that we take for granted.
The second sentence expresses the issuer's firm stance against an act of barbarism that, according to him, someone is directing at him and that could tarnish his honor. Finally we have a message that reminds us how offensive violence should be for us as a species, for any group of human beings. All behaviors that are framed in the group of barbarisms should remain in the past, since they do not bring anything other than suffering and injustice.
barbarian towns
In a poetic way, the idea of barbarism refers to a group or agglomeration of barbarians . It should be remembered that barbarians are the peoples who invaded the Roman Empire and expanded throughout the European continent starting in the 5th century ; The term also refers to those who are cruel or uncultured .
For linguistics
In the field of linguistics , a barbarism is an incorrectness that involves using improper words or writing and pronouncing terms improperly. On the other hand, barbarisms are foreign words that have not yet been incorporated into a language.
Many times barbarisms arise from adding, removing or changing the location of a letter . It is common, in this framework, for many individuals to talk about “devastate” when they want to refer to “destroy” or “destroy” . The correct thing, in this case, is to indicate “devastate” , without the S before the V.
Other frequent barbarisms occur when incorrectly adding an S to the end of certain verbs , such as “dijistes” (for “you said” ) and “fuistes” (for “you went” ). Although studied from the academic field they seem to be unforgivable and very obvious errors, in everyday speech they go unnoticed by millions of Spanish speakers, and little by little they become part of the habitual language that they accept as "correct."
Barbarisms, by Andrés Neuman (Editorial Páginas de Espuma)
Barbarisms, by Andrés Neuman
In 2014, the Argentine writer Andrés Neuman, who has spent much of his life in Spain, published a book titled Barbarismos (Páginas de Espuma), which can be understood, in his own words, as either a satire or a tribute to the dictionaries of our language. It is a very peculiar work, which demonstrates an undeniable passion for the Spanish language as well as the determination to question its institutionalization.
It is a daring book, which aims to reinterpret "the norm", go against certain euphemisms and mercilessly criticize political systems , but without ceasing to recognize itself as part of the barbarism that it denounces in its pages. Precisely, far from assuming a position and attacking those who do not adopt it, he takes the trouble to make crude definitions of concepts as distant as "democracy", "left" and "monarchy", all of them with their corresponding share of acid.