Pre-Babel (all credit to oxfordgirl)

And the LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech." So the LORD dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.

Genesis 11:6-8, ESV

17:36 < oxfordgirl> ("....nothing that they propose to do will not be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language..."; and the TEACHER did say, "What the FUCK, man? I have been YEARS constructing that. Don't you fucking start."; and the MERCHANT did say, "Okay, no, look, multiple currencies were enough. Don't. Just don't."...)
17:37 < oxfordgirl> (and the SMITH was all like, "No, sorry, perfect community requires monolinguistic intercomprehensibility, also, I will CUT you," and the HUNTRESS was too busy giggling about mooncups to pay attention; and the WEAVER did slink therefore into a corner and say, "Sorry, guys, it was just an idea...")

#maelfroth, 17/06/2009