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Why Babel Linguistics?
Here is the origin of our name: Ba·bel (ba'bl); from the Hebrew B(et)-B(et)-L(ahmed) n. babel = confusion | v. balbal = to confuse At that time everyone on earth spoke one language. And they said to one another, Come, let us build a city and a tower whose top will reach the sky; and let us provide for ourselves there, so that we will not be scattered over all the earth. And the Lord saw the city and the tower that the humans were building. And he said, If this is how they have begun to act, while they are one people and they all have one language, nothing they wish for will be beyond their reach. Come, let us go down and make a babble of their language, so that no one will understand what anyone else is saying. So they stopped building the city, and the Lord scattered them over all the earth. GENESIS, Stephen Mitchell |
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