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Originally Posted by LeukoLyko

Even in a language from the other edge of Europe - English, has words like Slav(e), (B)Vulgar, Turk as an insult. That should tell you a lot.

The word "vulgar" has latin root and is in neither way connected with our ancestors -- nomadic asiatic Bolgars, who came in contact with latin-speaking peoples long after these peoples had used that word.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=vulgar

Word History: The word vulgar now brings to mind off-color jokes and offensive epithets, but it once had more neutral meanings. Vulgar is an example of pejoration, the process by which a word develops negative meanings over time. The ancestor of vulgar, the Latin word vulgris (from vulgus, “the common people”), meant “of or belonging to the common people, everyday,” as well as “belonging to or associated with the lower orders.” Vulgris also meant “ordinary,” “common (of vocabulary, for example),” and “shared by all.” An extension of this meaning was “sexually promiscuous,” a sense that could have led to the English sense of “indecent.” Our word, first recorded in a work composed in 1391, entered English during the Middle English period, and in Middle English and later English we find not only the senses of the Latin word mentioned above but also related senses. What is common may be seen as debased, and in the 17th century we begin to find instances of vulgar that make explicit what had been implicit. Vulgar then came to mean “deficient in taste, delicacy, or refinement.” From such uses vulgar has continued to go downhill, and at present “crudely indecent” is among the commonest senses of the word.

Obviously it has nothing to do with early medieval central asian Bolgarian tribes. And as you can see its original meaning had no derogatory meaning.

But, since some not especially intelligent people (who tend to enjoy mental retardation) pretend that "Eire" derives from "aryan" and so on bs, you could built any theory you like using any linguistic similarities you like. For sure one could find plenty of such, in every two languages one could chose.




Also, the fact that f.e in English "vulgar" somewhat sounds like "bulgarian", comes from the poor or primitive sound fund of the english tongue, which doesn't allow it to reproduce in writting correctly the actual pronounciation of the name of our country and folk, which should sound like " Ba'lgaria " where a' is a sound close to mute, short, closed a, or may be somewhat between a and u.

However the sound impotence of the English tongue is well known. According to some speculators, that derives from the fact that early anglo-saxons were primitive, aggressive, almost mute barbarians with serious problems in articulate speech. Quite possibly that's the case but fortunately since those inarticulate, cave times, english has adopted enough foriegn, primarly latin influence, so that to become an almost intelligible language.

And what a irony we are using this primitive speech now to communicate with each other. But nowadays, ugly, foolish or filthy things are widespread like the american food and movies, english language, AIDS and paedophilia and so on. That's because people are on the whole foolish in every nation, country and continent and prefer to absorb the easy and primitive aspects of human culture.