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Tower of Babel

It isn't an accident that the Bible's tale of the Tower of Babel presents multilingualism as a divine curse meant to hinder our understanding.

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In 1880 a Bavarian priest created a language that he hoped the whole world could use.

From The Wall Street Journal
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