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This is hilarious to me, especially since Conan, the archetypal Barbarian, doesn't behave like that at all.
Yeah, the difference between Conan, the extremely smart, well read, polyglot, world traveler archetypal barbarian and the "D&D Barbarians are illiterate by default" thing is pretty weird.
From what I can gather, Conan (and by extension, the whole Hyborian age) is commentary on the dichotomy between civilization and barbarism. Conan of Cimmeria is called a barbarian for all the reasons folks throughout history referred to others as barbarians (e.g. he believes that peope aren't property, that people of different faiths should interact, e.t.c.)
Also, judging by the kinds of things Conan does, he'd be a rogue in D&D terms