woops

as I was saying...
the history of babel.

I was reading this article about the Guggenheim in New York for class and came across the story the word "babble" orginates.
It's embarassingly exciting.

In the bible after the flood, the survivors travelled to Mount Ararat where they planned to build a tower that would reach Heaven. God thought the people were too full of themselves, so to punish them for hubris he destroyed the commonality of their languages. Babel=Babble. Because they could no longer communicate they gave up, parted ways, and left the tower unfinished.