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I would add https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...

("It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug" -- Orwell predicts the LLM)

and also https://www.jstor.org/stable/25515288 "The Myles na gCopaleen Catechism of Cliché" itself is rather hard to find online, but he's a very funny writer so it's worth the effort.

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> Babel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel

I was hoping for a reference to the Babel Fish, whispering its translations in your ear.

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It's not clear to me whether that tool exists or you hallucinated it into existence with this post
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I'd love to see that tool.
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