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– the Duolingo team
Duolingo wants you to meme their stupid bird.
Please stop doing free work for corporations.
Fuck Duolingo specifically, as well.
languages are created by the Big Duolingo Corps™ to sell more Duolingo courses
Just use AI to create more languages
sorry I don’t speak Clankspeech
THOSE DAMN TIN-SKIN, WIREBACKED, OILBACKED, BOLT MUNCHING, CLANKERS /j
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sorry I don’t speak binary either, I’m enby
Babel was an inside job! Gunpowder in the mortar! Divine fire doesn’t melt clay bricks!!!
huh? not to be all well actually on an internet meme but the building of the tower of Babel is biblically what caused the languages to split. the hubris of people who thought they could reach god made him decide to punish humanity by confusing their speech. duo profits from people learning languages, so he’d need to be some sort of agent of evil that inspired that hubris in people
why would he blow it up? unless the author of the comic implies that duo just doesn’t like working and now this green owl has been chosen by god to mend humanity’s speech and he’s angry enough about it to destroy the tower that caused the split? am i reading too much into those two panels? yes
what… My interpretation of the meme was that Duo caused the the tower to collapse and if that means he’s responsible for splitting languages to achieve that then, that too. So that he could profit and torture you forcing you to learn languages.
but the tower’s destruction doesn’t bring him any closer to that goal, it’s an entirely unnecessary step. the tower only needed to be built to split languages.
besides the tower looks finished (iirc it was never finished, becuase of the whole langauge thing), and the people are upset that i’s being destroyed which- none of it makes sense.
why would they be upset that the tower that made god mad at them and split their speech so they couldn’t communicate is being destroyed?
why would duo be behind it? he profits from teaching languages, his work depends on there being more than one of them
if duo is destroying the tower then the comic does not make sense within the lore of the bible. it’s as if the author of the comic only half remembered that there was some tower that has something to do with languages
sorry for the long comment, i get unreasonably involved in logical inconsistencies in media
Yes, you’re reading too deep into it. It’s not about logic, but a what if sort of thinking, with creative license.
yes but we could have both! logic and creative license. take the same two panels, but instead the first one has the tower being built, and the second one shows Duo as the leading architect smiling mischievously
Fair, okay! You should have said that straight as the first comment!
i needed to get the whole internal monologue out first
Perhaps the owl sought to have the tower built instead, knowing God would punish humanity for doing so. He’s just looking approvingly at God doing what Duo wanted God to do.
What about Duolingo’s competitor Babbel?
yes my nerd anger is also directed at them, and all the other language schools that are named after the tower of babel
i will never make duo sad again!
