Would be ironic if the cultures separated (and their languages diverged) over religious differences.
Comment on Tower of Babel
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Any greek speakers who can translate?
I can’t help but wonder if this was the jews explaining the divergence of the semitic languages to the point where they wouldn’t be able to understand Babylonian and Akkadian despite them being related to Hebrew and having ended up on the same side of older splits like those from other afro-asiatic languages like the egyptian, kushitic, and amazigh branches.
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
promitheas@iusearchlinux.fyi 8 months ago
“Employees speak new languages.” Is what translate gives me, but I would translate it more as “The ones working speak new languages” or “Those who have employment speak new languages”. I still dont get the meme though, so the context might matter more and my translation could be off
Revan343@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
In the story of the Tower of Babel, they tried to build a tower to reach the heavens; God took affront to this, and confounded their language, so that they would not be able to effectively work together
Krauerking@lemy.lol 8 months ago
Right the workers and the rich architects could no longer understand each other, the city collapsed as suddenly there was vastly different lives being lived by those doing the work and those planning the work…
Totally God’s fault, cause that like never happens.
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
This God person sounds like an asshole