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Eating with your fingers is barbarous, eating other people is barbaric. 'Television' and 'speedometer' are barbarous words.
'Barbarous' has the sense of uncouth, foreign, or uncivilized.
'Barbaric' has the sense of cruel, horrifying, or "mediaeval".
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