2004 May 18, Robin Tolmach Lakoff, “ESSAY; From Ancient Greece to Iraq, the Power of Words in Wartime”, inThe New York Times[1]:
The Greeks and Romans referred to everyone else as "barbarians" --etymologically those who only babble, only go "bar-bar."
2014 October 20, Jochen Bittner, “Germany Without Angst? That Worries Me.”, inThe New York Times[2]:
The German language, as far as I know, is the only one in the world in which the words for debt and guilt areetymologically the same — the word for debt is “Schulden,” and for guilt it’s “Schuld.”
