In the third book of C.S. Lewis’s space trilogy, That Hideous Strength, the evil organization “N.I.C.E.” Is finally defeated when the spell of Babel is cast upon them and they can no longer ...
Babel, whose original derivation from the Hebrew name for Babylon dates even further back to Akkadian—an extinct East Semitic language spoken in ancient Mesopotamia—refers to the Akkadian name of the ...
The phrase “lost in translation” acknowledges that words in one language may carry different meanings in another. To a deeper extent, it describes the inherent difficulties in communication among ...
In Mark Waid, Howard Porter, and Steve Scott’s Justice “Tower of Babel” story arc, published in JLA #43-46, Batman develops contingency plans to neutralize his Justice League teammates should they ...