Babel: curse or blessing?
‘Babel’ is a paradoxical word. It is a name that was given to a city at the moment of its abandonment, and to a tower at the moment of its failure to be built. It signifies the variety of languages and yet is itself to be found unchanged in very many languages of the world. People can understand the...
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Bodleian Library
2019
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| Sumari: | ‘Babel’ is a paradoxical word. It is a name that was given to a city at the moment of its abandonment, and to a tower at the moment of its failure to be built. It signifies the variety of languages and yet is itself to be found unchanged in very many languages of the world. People can understand the word ‘Babel’; but what it means is the disintegration of understanding. Its meaning is the confusion of meaning. |
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