The confusion of tongues (confusio linguarum) is the initial fragmentation of human languages described in the Book of Genesis 11:1–9, as a result of the construction of the Tower of Babel.
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... made fun of the contest between the European nationalists to claim their native tongue as the Adamic language ...
... made fun of the contest between the European nationalists to claim their native tongue as the Adamic language ...
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“Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
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The tongues of soothers, but a braver place
In my heart’s love hath no man than yourself.”
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“There is ... no glamor at banquets—I mean the large formal banquets of big associations and societies. There is only a kind of dignified confusion that gradually unhinges the mind.”
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