Tower of Babel

[סלח לנו]

The English language and the AK-47 have become the international languages of the world.

Look at this Ethiopian tribesman, like the Pashtuns, the Palestinians, the Hezb, the Iraqi, both sides of the Sudanese conflict and most everyone else, is hugging an AK-47 on his neck which would have been the romantic broadsword hugged by the 40 thieves and everyone else depicted in 1001 Arabian Nights stories -
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...4_borana_7.jpg.

To be fair, this picture came from the BBC article -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7926839.stm.

To be fair again, here is another BBC article on the English language -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programme...nt/7844192.stm.

The French have lost the war and anti-English measures are simply "urinating on ashes of fire", someone by the name of Nerriere whose conclusion is resented by his own people, is quoted as saying. He concludes that the French ought follow the example of everyone else and learn to use Globish. I think he should call it Globlish, like Spanglish, Japlish, Swedlish, Russlish, Singlish, Taglish (from Tagalog), etc.

The AK-47, like Globlish, is a highly utilitarian unsophisticated inelegant but highly effective communication tool. Like, globish, it has low frequency of jamming. It is cheap, unregulated, public domain and in the control of the hands (or lips) of those who use it.

Aramaic was the initial global language. Religious linguists fight over which is the actual mother of all tongues. It must be Hebrew or the archaelogically verified Phoenician or Ugaritic. Like Nerriere, we have to admit that we are simply urinating on the ashes of fire because Hebrew or Phoenician or Aramaic or Gezer - they influenced each other and the resultant happened to be a victory that happened to be called "Aramaic". Is Aramaic today or of the Talmud the Aramaic of 2500 years ago? How many French words became English and now resentfully recycled with new meanings in French? The French should simply use those technology terms unresentfully because they were concoctions of Latin and Greek. If not the English, then the French would have concocted them similarly too.

My ulterior motive of this babbling is actually to say, the world has become increasingly globalised. I don't think the tower of Babel was a bad thing. I believe that the first tower of Babel was incinerated because it did not meet the required standard. Now is the time to rebuild the tower of Babel as the human race has acquired more and more of the necessary diversity of thoughts, languages and philosophies. I believed G`d wants humankind to be able to make decisions independently - to be able to reach the heights of heavens by our own ability.

The first tower was destroyed because it would have stunted the growth of humankind as it actually would never have allowed humankind to reach the heavens at all - and G`d would never have His bride.

Some people just don't realise it - resistance to globalisation is futile, you will be assimilated. The very steps that these people take to counter what they fear is 666 will actually become the 666 platform itself - self-fulfilling prophecy. The very anti-666 neo-conservative pro-Limbaugh doctrinairians would be the ones implementing the 666 they fear. Your greed and resistance to a socially just system of finance and universal health would be the very constraints that force you into deploying 666 yourselves.

There is no way for you to counter 6 global political alignments, 6 major languages and more importantly a unified global computer/communication code that takes the form of a more efficient radix-6 transition code (rather than the current radix 2 or binary transitions) exploiting valency combinations in molecular computing. I am thinking of a triad of radix-6 code that pervades everything we do. Especially the biological nano-implants to heal you, to enhance your memory/intellect and to prolong your life. You would have to live on Mars.

Resistance/resistence is futile. You are merely urinating on the ashes of fire.

[John Goddard]

There is no way for you to counter 6 global political alignments, 6 major languages and more importantly a unified global computer/communication code that takes the form of a more efficient radix-6 transition code (rather than the current radix 2 or binary transitions) exploiting valency combinations in molecular computing. I am thinking of a triad of radix-6 code that pervades everything we do. Especially the biological nano-implants to heal you, to enhance your memory/intellect and to prolong your life. You would have to live on Mars.

Resistance/resistence is futile. You are merely urinating on the ashes of fire.

Six bucks says you're wrong...

[Seasanctuary]

The AK-47, like Globlish, is a highly utilitarian unsophisticated inelegant but highly effective communication tool. Like, globish, it has low frequency of jamming. It is cheap, unregulated, public domain and in the control of the hands (or lips) of those who use it.

While it is true that the total number of languages is being drastically reduced, I see no danger of a single language spoken by everyone for everything. Pilots are an extreme example. They have more or less standardized around English for important aviation communication. Are these same pilots going home and conducting the rest of their lives in English? Not unless they were doing so already.

For linguists it is a loss for small community languages to go extinct, but for people in general it is usually more enriching to be able to communicate with a wider world.

As for languages blending to some extent, it's laughable for an English speaker to complain about that. Take a look at our own language's history.

Aramaic was the initial global language. Religious linguists fight over which is the actual mother of all tongues. It must be Hebrew or the archaelogically verified Phoenician or Ugaritic.

'Religious linguists' being the key term there. I hope no one reading this thread thinks what you're claiming is remotely close to what real linguists think.

My ulterior motive of this babbling is actually to say, the world has become increasingly globalised. I don't think the tower of Babel was a bad thing. I believe that the first tower of Babel was incinerated because it did not meet the required standard. Now is the time to rebuild the tower of Babel as the human race has acquired more and more of the necessary diversity of thoughts, languages and philosophies. I believed G`d wants humankind to be able to make decisions independently - to be able to reach the heights of heavens by our own ability.

Do you mean a literal tower or something else?

The very steps that these people take to counter what they fear is 666 will actually become the 666 platform itself - self-fulfilling prophecy. The very anti-666 neo-conservative pro-Limbaugh doctrinairians would be the ones implementing the 666 they fear. Your greed and resistance to a socially just system of finance and universal health would be the very constraints that force you into deploying 666 yourselves.

It really isn't new to assert that today's news items will be part of the apocalypse. Astounding failure rate on such assertions thus far.

There is no way for you to counter 6 global political alignments, 6 major languages and more importantly a unified global computer/communication code that takes the form of a more efficient radix-6 transition code (rather than the current radix 2 or binary transitions) exploiting valency combinations in molecular computing. I am thinking of a triad of radix-6 code that pervades everything we do.

'Efficiency' at that level of computing doesn't matter. Simplicity does.

You are merely urinating on the ashes of fire.

What if I enjoy that pastime?

[FlimFlamboyant]

You would have to live on Mars.

Can I crash at your place?