Everywhere you went in Paris during the revolt in Tunisia, portable televisions blared at top volume in shops, takeaways and cafes, broadcasting a polyglot, polyphonic babble from Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya and the French-speaking channels from the Maghreb.
If you ignore the babble, however, and can afford the price-tag, then there can't be many better ways of enjoying such an experience.
She does not exactly babble – she is clearly far too intelligent for that – but her thoughts tumble over one another as she talks about making movies, her kids, her native Belgium and how she thrives on her cosy routines.
Stopping Pulp Fiction from being made would have saved me a lot of personal strife – especially all the strife I encountered studying film at university during its relative afterglow, where people would pad out their hokey three-minute plots with swaths and swaths of tedious babble about continental hamburgers and the imagined subtexts hidden within Achy Breaky Heart.
Philip Tetlock: Leonore Annenberg University professor of Psychology and Management, University of Pennsylvania Dan Gardner: journalist and author of "Future Babble: Why Pundits Are Hedgehogs and Foxes Know Best" (Plume).
Lately, the babble on Wall Street has been louder than ever.
Dr Atkinson's paper appears in Science, Dr Dunn's in Nature.Travellers' talesIn this section Babel or babble?
The characters babble in chipmunk voices, spouting dialogue that is mostly scripted but seems improvised.
After the losses of Challenger and Columbia, America's shuttle fleet was grounded, which explains the big drop in missions following both accidents.In this section Babel or babble?
Instead of a thrilling clash of titans, debates could turn into a babble of jargon between unknowns.
In articles from the 1920s to the 1940s Savarkar lambasted Gandhi as a "crazy lunatic" who "happens to babble...[about] compassion, forgiveness", yet "notwithstanding his sublime and broad heart, the Mahatma has a very narrow and immature head".
