Alternative interpretation of the Tower of Babel:
https://www.ncregister.com/blog/linguistic-confusion-tower-of-babel
Found via the language log, titled "Origin of speeches?, of just the collapse of Uruk?"
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=59365
Still better than my parents at telling jokes:
Paper:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04563
Found this (belatedly) via the Language Log blog: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=59096
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