So they were still all speaking english right up until Babel?
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No, they were speaking Greek up to the third century BC, Latin from that until the Eighteenth century, French until second world war and now English. Who knows?, maybe they will speak Spanish or Arabic.
No, they were speaking Common Eldarin. After Babel it split into Quenya, Sindarin, Telerin, Khuzdul and Westron, among others.
English from a few centuries ago sounds nothing like the english today. Same with many, if not all languages. Furthermore various tribes would have different dialects and you may be unable to understand the language of someone living just a few kilometers away in those times.
No, "they" didn't speak anything resembling English anywhere near the time your made-up story is supposed to have happened, and the fact that Babel is fictional means that nothing changed after it, because it didn't happen.
No dude. Read that chapter right before Babel in Genesis. You'll see that there were groups with different languages before Babel.
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Oh no, this is definitely Fundie. They are the only ones that talk this shit, their preachers happily pretend the KJV is the right book because, and only because it's in English.
The only people you'll hear that think English is thousands of years old are the Fundamentalists. They also believe Jesus and Moses and Noah are all whiteys.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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