Babel Fish is a free web tool by Yahoo! that can translate up to 12 languages into or from English. It was developed by AltaVista and uses SYSTRAN technology. The tool is named after a character in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and is not perfect, often producing humorous results. Babel Fish is a […]
The Tower of Babel, from the Book of Genesis, tells of humanity’s attempt to build a tower to reach heaven. God confuses their language as punishment, causing chaos and scattering people across the Earth. Some scholars believe it is a commentary on Mesopotamian ziggurats. The Tower of Babel is a structure referred to in chapter […]
