Blogging in Tongues Yields Interesting Results

Orginally published on Friday, February 29, 2008 at 7:29 AM
by Todd Rhoades

TBBN reports about a year ago Mark Heinburger got "inspired." After a number of his friends started using various free "blog" websites to post occasional thoughts, pictures and even video clips, Heinburger decided that he too needed to join the blogosphere. After searching through several different free blog sites he made a decision to join one. All that was left to do was to choose a theme for his blog and topic for his site. "I went for a pretty basic theme" said Heinburger. "I didn't want anything too flashy. I've seen so many blogs out there with all kinds of flashy crazy colors and graphics, but that's not what I'm about. So I just wanted mine to be plain with just a few little pictures here in there." All was going well for Heinburger until the time came for him to actually make his first post. "I sat in front of a blank screen for several hours" stated Heinburger. "I just didn't know where to begin. As a Christian I wanted to say something important and useful but I've never been much of a writer."

As the time passed Heinburger started a number of different posts only to become frustrated, erase them and start over again. This situation went on for several days until finally, late one night Heinburger claims he received a “revelation.”

“I just sat in front of the computer and suddenly the most amazing thing happened” said Heinburger. “I just started typing, just anything, just whatever came to my mind. It just kept coming and coming without stopping. I didn’t know what was happening to me.”

When it was over Heinburger realized that had typed a rather lengthy post, but with one major distinguishing factor; it was all in “tongues.” He quickly posted his words and went to sleep. He awoke the next morning and received quite a surprise.

“I woke up and checked my email to see that I had almost 50 comments on my first post” he said. “I checked my stats and over 2000 people have visited my site in just the day. All of these people were visiting my site and posting their interpretations of what I had written in tongues.”

An excerpt from one of Heinburger’s post along with an interpretive comment reveals the following.

“skdit bhwosidth sdkh ! weiu ueif ywqplcxnf duwiel! dhsido? sdlkjq0gjn, sdld, tqnod, thewioghs wehros q wepop hfow!”

To which one commenter interpreted…

(you’ll have to go to TBNN to read the interpretation)

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