Babelism
\ BAY-buh-liz-uhm, BAB-uh- \, noun;
1.a confusion, as of ideas, speech, etc.
Quotes:
Her " babelism ," as Claudine, who finds her wildly amusing, calls it, and her carefully cultivated gibberish, attract attention like an additional charm.
-- Colette, translated by Antonia White, "Claudine and Annie , " 1903
Indeed all of these bodies of work materialize the idea of " babelism ," a kind of scrambled opacity, which Ferrari identified in the early 1960s and which really sums up his entire poetic oeuvre...
-- Luis Pérez-Oramas, León Ferrari and Mira Schendel: "Tangled Alphabets ," 2009
Origin:
Babelism emerged in the late 1700s from the word Babel , which refers both to a Biblical city and to "a confused mixture of sounds or voices."
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