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Adamic
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A`dam´ic
a.1.Of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him.
Adamic earth
a name given to common red clay, from a notion that Adam means red earth.
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Rather than attempting to reconfigure the Adamic language, the language planners' principal goal was more modest: effectually to reverse the 'confusion of tongues' imposed upon humankind at Babel" (117).
Language, Mind and Nature: Artificial Languages in England from Bacon ... by Kavey, Allison B. / Renaissance Quarterly
AI may be heir to searches for the perfect pre-Babel Adamic language, but more mundane su ggestions can also be advanced.
The Religion of Technology, the Divinity of Man and the Spirit of ... by O'NEILL, WILLIAM / Cross Currents
In its conflation of sound and sense, signifier and signified, it bears some resemblance to the imagined Adamic language in which words contained in themselves knowledge and power over what they named.
Shakespeare from the Margins: Language, Culture, Context by de Grazia, Margreta / Shakespeare Studies
 
 
 
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