In the Bible, in the opening chapters of Genesis, people decide to self-deify by making a tower that will reach up to Heaven. (Having the world's tallest skyscraper is still something want.) And, as the story goes, God cursed this project by making the people speak different languages and be unable to communicate with each other.<div>
<br></div><div>Implicit in this (actually, explicitly stated in the beginning of this story), is that the whole earth spoke a single language, and there is something of a mythic quality to this language. This is the language from the Garden of Eden, the language of Paradise.</div>
<div><br></div><div>On Quora.com, someone asked, "What was the original language that was spoken by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden?"</div><div><br></div><div>My answer: "Python."<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Brian Herman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bherma3@uic.edu">bherma3@uic.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
?<div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Jonathan Hayward <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonathan.hayward@pobox.com" target="_blank">jonathan.hayward@pobox.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div></div><div class="h5">I thought you might appreciate an answer to a question about proto-human language: <a href="http://www.quora.com/What-language-did-Adam-and-Eve-speak-in-the-Garden-of-Eden" target="_blank">http://www.quora.com/What-language-did-Adam-and-Eve-speak-in-the-Garden-of-Eden</a><div>
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