Incidentally, tazber's gibberish posts made me think of something I read today in my BOOK OF FACTS:
"To the early Greeks, foreign languages seemed to be a meaningless succession of syllables, like "bar-bar-bar." They called all foreigners "barbarol" ("stammerers"), and in English this became "barbarians." At first, there was no particularly derogatory meaning to the word. It simply stood for "foreigner." After all, the Greeks were encountering foreigners like the Syrians, Egyptians, and Babylonians, all highly cultured people."
Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Updated On: 8/10/08 at 12:35 AM