Word: babeling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unknown young preachers, the barefoot preachers, who go from village to village, preaching and teaching." The widespread search was remarkably successful. Most of those who arrived in Amsterdam were clad in Western-style suits and sport shirts, some in tribal costumes, and they sang and spoke in a Babel of tongues. (Plenary meetings were simultaneously translated into 14 languages...
...envy of the world has now become an impediment to the networking of the nation. Rather than agreeing on standards that would enable one computer network to share data with another, American firms are promoting their own proprietary communications systems, creating what has become a veritable skyscraper of Babel. The potential bugs involved in tying together incompatible systems, says Matthew Balkovic, director of AT&T Information System's Computer Networking Laboratory, are "enough to populate a swamp...
...spoke in three different languages, we were slowed down." To hear one witness in the Netherlands, the session had to be conducted in Turkish, Dutch, German and Italian. Quipped a visiting Australian judge at the sight of translators for the Bulgarian and Turkish defendants: "This is the trial of Babel...
...around in an ocean that soon becomes a desert, and then winds up back in his living room"--that completes a cycle. Like a Biblical parable, it tells of the destruction of civilization at the hands of hubristic pseudo-intellectuals. The punishment: society is destroyed like the Tower of Babel and sunk into the ocean like Atlantis...
From the moment I punch in or step into a warehouse, I feel as if I have entered the Tower of Babel: nothing makes sense. For instance, when my foreman tells me to "cut the grass down thar between that patch of goober weeds and them stink weeds," I am at a complete loss...