Darcy deserves a round of applause for her excellent presentation reviewing Umberto Eco's Search for a Perfect Language today in Linguistics class today.
Eco's point that there was already a plurality of languages before Babel (see Gen. 10), really through a wrench in the spokes for those in the class that tend to be overly interested in finding a biblically-based linguistic theory. The tenants of such a theory, in my opinion, have made little more than speculative assertions.
At any rate, Darcy did a fine job with the project. I'll be following it up in a few weeks with a report on Eco's The Open Work.
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