Turrace of Babbel

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Tower of Babel: According to the narrative in Genesis Chapter 11 of the Bible, the Tower of Babel was a tower built by a united humanity in order to reach the heavens. To prevent the project from succeeding, God confused their languages so that each spoke a different language, they could no longer communicate with one another and the work could not proceed. After that time, people moved away to different parts of Earth. The story is used to explain the existence of many different languages and races. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel

Babble: a meaningless confusion of words.

Babble: the sound of water in a stream (babbling).