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When the people of the earth ceased to have the same language, they lost the ability to communicate. But did they continue to have the same thoughts, expressed in different tongues? We think not. Consider a more modern failure to communicate. The historian Barbara Tuchman has admitted that she simply cannot write about certain types of people.
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Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because there the Lord did confound the languages of all the earth…..Genesis; 11:9.
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Hunt, E., Banaji, M.R. (1988). The Whorfian Hypothesis Revisited: A Cognitive Science View of Linguistic and Cultural Effects on Thought. In: Berry, J.W., Irvine, S.H., Hunt, E.B. (eds) Indigenous Cognition: Functioning in Cultural Context. NATO ASI Series, vol 41. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2778-0_5
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