Linguist Gaston Dorren's book is endlessly interesting — and you don't have to have any linguistic training to enjoy it: He has a talent for... For centuries, people have used mythology to try to make ...

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For centuries, people have used mythology to try to make sense of the fact that the people of the world speak so many different languages. One example of the origin story of the "confusion of tongues" ...