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The language we speak is communicated in a deformed way due to the difference in which we all understand the same words. If I was to say the word "love" right now, we all would think of what that word means to us. To each one of us it means something a little different. So much so that when asked to give a definition of "love", one would get a myriad of definitions from all those whom we would ask.

These definitions of words are based on our own experience, knowledge, upbringing and education level, we have all been given our own definitions of the words we use in the language we speak.

Because of this...no true perfect communication can take place unless we first define the terms or words we are using to communicate with.

Can you see what I'm saying here? It is of the utmost importance that we all have a clear understanding from the start; otherwise we might lose someone or something along the way.

In verses two and three, we see these people find a piece of land with the desire to build, so they start making the bricks and mortar. They said they wanted to build a city and a tower. A tower with a top to reach to heaven itself. So they could be one people with one name and not scattered throughout the earth. Interesting concept isn't it?

Somewhere before this started they first had to develop a common language in which they all had the same understanding of the words they spoke with each other. Allowing the maturity of their language to grow and develop. I don't think they just woke up one day and perfectly understood and agreed with each other.

No, the development of a harmonious language is a work of a lifetime and more. Each generation would have to undergo training and instruction in their use of the words in the language they spoke in order to truly speak one language "with the same vocabulary" and for all to have the same understanding of this language.

GENESIS 11:4
(KJV)
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth...
(The Living Bible)
The people who lived there began to talk about building a great city, with a temple-tower reaching to the skies-- a proud, eternal monument to themselves. "This will weld us together," they said, "and keep us from scattering all over the world." So they made great piles of hard burned brick, and collected bitumen to use as mortar.
(Ferrar Fenton)
So they agreed, "We will build here for ourselves a City and a Tower whose top shall reach the sky; thus we will make a beacon for ourselves, so that we may not be scattered over all the surface of the country."