Post by HenHannaPost by Ross Clark"...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.