Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Israeli firm talks up mankind’s recovery from the Tower of Babel

You speak in your language but the listener hears you in his or hers — by phone, via the Internet, or even face-to-face. It’s a linguistic revolution, say the innovators behind Lexifone...Read here...

Tower of Babel by medieval artist Pieter Breugel the Elder. Painted in 1563, it is currently on display at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (Photo credit: Courtesy Google Art Project/Wikipedia Commons)
Tower of Babel by medieval artist Pieter Breugel the Elder. Painted in 1563, it is currently on display at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (Photo credit: Courtesy Google Art Project/Wikipedia Commons)
“And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech… And they said, Come, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven… And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower… 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. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
“So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 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.” (Genesis, Chapter 11, Verses 1-9)[link]

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