Tag: multilingualism

A Bird With Two Songs

  • Emily
  • February 10, 2025
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By Emily

Content 12+ According to the Christian Bible, an edifice called “The Tower of Babel” was erected by God to make a whole bunch of different languages. The idea apparently held by the suspicious ‘Lord’ was that if everybody spoke the same language, it would make it easier for them to disobey Him and Rebel against his commands. But, He reasoned sagely, if they couldn’t understand each other, then … Read the rest

The Opera Of Language: A Stuttering Soliloquy

By Eric Le Roy

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.Bruegel’s ‘Tower of Babel’

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Content 18+ My Budapest-based friend and colleague Artem (I refer to him so much you might think he is just my alter-ego or imaginary friend like a teddy bear or ghost in the forest) shared the following information with me recently:

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“My gym trainer told me that English is a language of idiots as it is very … Read the rest