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<div><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Another purpose of <I>The Babel Text</I> is to encourage designers of model languages to demonstrate how those languages would actually be used in sustained discourse. Most langmakers (myself included) do not provide much text actually written in their language. <I>The Babel Text</I> has become the standard document for model-language designers to translate into their languages.</FONT></div>
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<div><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The source document for <I>The Babel Text</I> is Genesis 11:1-9, the story of the breaking of the Tower of Babel. This passage was chosen because: </FONT></div>
<div style="margin-left:24px; text-indent:-24px; "><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Its theme of the creation of new languages from one language is highly appropriate to language development. </FONT></div>
<div style="margin-left:24px; text-indent:-24px; "><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">It repeats patterns, making it easier to translate and understand than other passages of its length. </FONT></div>
<div style="margin-left:24px; text-indent:-24px; "><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">As part of the Hebrew Scriptures, it has already been translated into many natural and artificial languages. </FONT></div>
<div style="margin-left:24px; text-indent:-24px; "><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">It is less formulaic and rigid than the Paternoster (The Lord's Prayer). </FONT></div>
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<div><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I first decided to start comparing the texts of artificial languages back in 1995. Prior to that, people often used the Lord's Prayer for comparing real languages, and a few langmakers used the "North Wind and the Sun" fable. But I had decided on the Tower of Babel story, for the reasons given above. It has struck a nerve as a good choice, and now many people have sent me translations in it.</FONT></div>
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<div><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Additional translations will be added on an ongoing basis. To submit a passage for a natural or model language, please <A HREF="add_babeltext.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Add Babel Text"><U>fill out this form</U></A>.</FONT></div>
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<div><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">If you are interested in parallel texts in other languages, check out <A HREF="https://www.pair.com/keithlim/jabberwocky/translations/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="https://www.pair.com/keithlim/jabberwocky"><U>Jabberwocky</U></A>.</FONT></div>
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<div><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Regards, </FONT></div>
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<div><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Jeffrey Henning </FONT></div>
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