Language is God’s greatest gift to human
It’s not the property of a nation or man
You can’t posses it like land
Or keep it like a jewel on your hand
The pure languages like Latin and Sanskrit are dead
The resourceful ones like English and Spanish are spread
Every language has got many a dialect and accent
No dialect or accent can claim to be perfect
Politeness is the hall mark of any civilized language
Rudeness is intolerable for man in any age
Language is not the monopoly of a tribe
It only helps us to speak and scribe
Language helps us to know human history
How humans acquired is a great mystery
It is a great binding force
And human beings’ wonderful resource
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Author:
JVL NARASIMHA RAO (Pseudonym) (
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Fascinating discussion on language. God says in His Word that all men spoke the same language until He confounded their language so that they could not understand each other; they were disobeying Him....instead of dispersing and filling the earth, they congregated to build a tower to reach to heaven, lest they be dispersed. So the Lord came down and confounding the languages, they did disperse, unable to continue working together building. It is in Genesis 11, the first 10 or so verses.
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