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  • This Babelian fluency has become increasingly important to my daily activities as the foreigners are coming in droves to New York City, sustaining my habitat while the rest of my remarkably pedestrian country sinks beneath the weight of mortgage foreclosures, soaring gas prices, a sinking dollar, grocery inflation, war debt and simple national malaise.

    Cheryl Pearl Sucher: The Foreigners are Coming, the Foreigners are Coming! 2008

  • The other extreme possibility was that God minimized the diversity; the post-Babelian languages, each of them describable as gotten by a set of regularities from the lingua adamica, differed from one another just barely enough to frustrate universal communication, yet not so much as to frustrate scientific understanding of their relationships.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas RULON WELLS 1968

  • As for the hypothesis that the pre-Babelian language was Hebrew, linguistic science was not in a position to refute this hypothesis definitely until about the

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas RULON WELLS 1968

  • Limozeen: Hot Babelian Odyssey on the Fun Machine from the start, being deprived of the experience gave me motivation to get through the whole game, and it was well worth it.

    Destructoid 2008

  • Aramaic, Coptic, and Babylonian words and proper names commingle in happy abandon with endless concatenations of gibberish, producing a veritable Babelian babble to challenge the ingenuity of Indo-European and Semitist scholars alike two thousand years later, as they wrangle with these more-than-sesquipedalian creations of Greco-Egyptian magical fantasy.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 1 1992

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