God didn’t destroy Babel. He punished them by confounding their speech after they built the tower from which Nimrod fired an arrow from his bow at God. Those that could understand each other parted ways from the others.
That is true. Thank you.
I was only thinking of the overall effect that had on the aim of the people building it. Their cause was interfered with, to say the least.
Any resemblance to PC-speak is purely coincidental.
Hence speaking Esperanto and any language besides American is doing santas bidding.
I think the author was looking at it from the perspective that Babel was a one world government which God destroyed by breaking it up into separate nations using the means you describe. In this sense he did destroy Babel and man is trying to recreate it by moving toward a one wold government today. I see the basic similarity in both instances being man's desire in his collective power to put himself equal to and/or autonomous from God. Man seeing man as a power unto himself. With Babel (and today) there is the clear message that this was done in a collective, or governmental if you will, sense.