Context: several religious leaders of countries throughout history have attempted to find man's "original language" (in Christianity that being the language spoken pre-babel assumedly) which is a neat idea. Until they just nick some kids and lock them in a room and feed them through a hatch to stop them from learning any language.
As you may guess, this did not achieve what they wanted, with the subjects simply making little to no verbal communication with one another according to one source from India from the reign of Ashoka. (Though you could argue that the noises they did make were in fact man's original language.)
Notable examples of rulers who have done so include:
Psamtik I of Egypt
Frederick II of Sicily
James IV of Scotland
Ashoka of the Mauryan empire
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MFW when someone in history has actually attempted my stoner friend’s incredibly unethical thought experiment
To be fair, up until recently, it was very hard to find out that someone already tried that experiment before you did
John Allen Chau thought the sentinelede would understand Xhosa apparently