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* [[Older Than Feudalism]] literary example: The actual Tower Of Babel in ''[[The Bible]]''. Note that this isn't technically an example, as it was an [[Unbuilt Trope]] at the time.
** The fate of the N.I.C.E. in C. S. Lewis' ''[[That Hideous Strength]]'' is a shout out to the Biblical Tower of Babel.
** The Tower of Babel story is [[Older Than They Think]]
** Given that the [[The Great Flood|flood]] had just happened, they may have just wanted a place to run to in case it happened again.
* In ''[[Snow Crash]]'', the [[Big Bad]] is attempting to spread an informational [[The Virus|virus]] that causes infected people to revert to the "language of Babel", supposedly a primitive language wired into the human brainstem. He uses this language to essentially take control of their minds. The language is incomprehensible to anyone who is uninfected and hasn't studied it extensively.
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'''Fry''': [patiently] "No, Leela, brains make you smart."
'''Leela''': "Nooo!" }}
* In one episode of ''[[My Life as a Teenage Robot]]'', Jenny saves Tokyo from some monsters and comes back home after. Problem is, she had switched language discs from English to Japanese and lost her English disc in Tokyo. She suffers the majority of the
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