It would be supremely amusing if Google takes this step towards babelizing[1] web chat under the banner "Babble". EDIT: although from a Google-centric point of

It would be supremely amusing if Google takes this step towards babelizing[1] web chat under the banner "Babble". EDIT: although from a Google-centric point of view it is kind of the opposite, since they are unifying. [1] The narrative of the city of Babel is recorded in Genesis 11:1-9. Everyone on earth spoke the same language. As people migrated from the east, they settled in the land of Shinar. People there sought to make bricks and build a city and a tower with its top in the sky, to make a name for themselves, so that they not be scattered over the world. God came down to look at the city and tower, and remarked that as one people with one language, nothing that they sought would be out of their reach. God went down and confounded their speech, so that they could not understand each other, and scattered them over the face of the earth, and they stopped building the city. Thus the city was called Babel. [from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel]