The Tower Of Babel Connection

[LostCause]

So I'm in class giving a facial when suddenly it hits me and I turn to the girl with bad high lights working next to me and say:

"Do you think that the story of The Tower Of Babel and the word 'babble' have any correlation?"

And she says "Huh?"

"Nevermind." I say and I finish up and take my lunch break in the library. I look it up online and it turns out I'm right.

It's an arbitrary fact, but I thought someone might like to know.

Cheers,

Lost

...duh.

[Zay]

Cunning linguists.

Yes, very cunning indeed.

How'd you give them a facial?

quote:Originally posted by crazed_hamster:

How'd you give them a facial?

As I read her post, I knew someone of the four posts before me would beat me to commenting on that.

Good thread, Lost. I love etymology, in spite of the five minutes it just took me to figure out how to spell it.

quote:Originally posted by SurahAhriman:

As I read her post, I knew someone of the four posts before me would beat me to commenting on that.

Good thread, Lost. I love etymology, in spite of the five minutes it just took me to figure out how to spell it.

At least you took the time to learn the correct spelling. Props.

Not that I get pissed whenever I see a word's off by a couple of letters, though. It's just softer on my brain to see shit spelled right.

quote:Originally posted by Merlinman2005:



At least you took the time to learn the correct spelling. Props.

Not that I get pissed whenever I see a word's off by a couple of letters, though. It's just softer on my brain to see shit spelled right.

I wanted to make sure I was using the right word, so I typed "etemology" into wikipedia, then had to deal with firefox giving me shit of the "I'll only open new tabs for every page you try to go to" variety. But I agree. When you can have a window in your browser set to dictionary.com, learning how to spell like a human isn't difficult.

[Clarphimous]

Yes, LostCause. That's where we get the word in English. Very perceptive of you.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Babel

Babel

capital of Babylon, 1382, from Heb. Babhel (Gen. ix), from Akkadian bab-ilu "Gate of God" (from bab "gate" + ilu "god"). The name is a translation of Sumerian Ka-dingir. Meaning "confused medley of sounds" (1529) is from the biblical story of the Tower of Babel.



The Biblical city Babel is thought to be the city we know as Babylon. All the major Mesopotamian cities had a ziggurat dedicated to their particular gods. Babylon's city god was Marduk, sometimes called Bel-Marduk (meaning Lord Marduk) or simply Baal. So the tower of Babel in the Bible was actually a holy place for a pagan god, not an attempt to reach Yahweh. Although it was always believed back then that the gods lived in the skies, so that's why they built those huge towers. So they could be closer to the gods. This story in the Bible is something of a myth -- a mixture of historical truth with legend.

[quote]Originally posted by LostCause:

"Do you think that the story of The Tower Of Babel and the word 'babble' have any correlation?"

"Huh?"

Are cain and abel the same person? Why'dya wanna get a look at me LOst

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