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On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 19:29:42 +0000, HenHanna wrote:
On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 9:30:58 +0000, Ross Clark wrote:
"...another day that has come out of the United States without any
obvious origin or reason."
(Various web sites throw out different ideas about why there should be
such a day. None claim responsibility for it.)
To fill up the rest of the page, Crystal talks about "babbling" as a
particular phase of children's language development.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbling
i think it was John Ciardi who made a point about...
Babble and Babel are etym. unrelated.
Genesis 11
King James Version
11 And the whole earth was of one language, and of
one speech.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east,
that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they
dwelt there.
3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick,
and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone,
and slime had they for morter.
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a
tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make
us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of
the whole earth.
5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower,
which the children of men builded.
6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they
have all one language; and this they begin to do: and
now nothing will be restrained from them, which they
have imagined to do.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their
language, that they may not understand one another's
speech.
8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon
the face of all the earth: and they left off to build
the city.
9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because
the Lord did there confound the language of all the
earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them
abroad upon the face of all the earth.
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