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The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language is a 2002 non-fiction book by American linguist John McWhorter. The book provides an overview of the then-recent research in the field of linguistics, focusing primarily on how languages have evolved and will continue to evolve over time. The author celebrates the diversity amongst the Earth's ...
A. S. Byatt's novel Babel Tower (1996) is about the question "whether language can be shared, or, if that turns out to be illusory, how individuals, in talking to each other, fail to understand each other". [62] The progressive band Soul Secret wrote a concept album called BABEL, based on a modernized version of the myth.
McWhorter has published a number of books on linguistics and on race relations, including The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English, Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why You Should, Like, Care, and Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America.
A fact from The Power of Babel appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 September 2024 (check views).The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the author of The Power of Babel says that speakers of Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish are all speaking the same language?
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Labyrinths (1962, 1964, 1970, 1983) is a collection of short stories and essays by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges.It was translated into English, published soon after Borges won the International Publishers' Prize with Samuel Beckett.
The short story details the creation of the Tower of Babel. [2] The narrator notes how many different people, from various nationalities had a hand in the construction. The massive scale of the project creates so many logistical and societal complications that it becomes impossible for civilization to ever achieve the original plan, or to even seriously believe in the plan.
The third book of Turris Babel dealt with linguistics. [1]: 18 Kircher affirmed that before the Flood there had been no division of nations or languages. [2]: 178 His theory of language was that the original human speech of the Garden of Eden was perfect, in that words corresponded exactly with the objects for which they stood.