To throw into confusion; render unintelligible; confound.
verb To confuse by mixing or mingling divergent or distinct languages or cultures.
I wish I could say I had something to do with the planning of this: part of Balisage 2010 is a contest to "encourage markup experts to review and to research the current state of wiki markup languages and to generate a proposal that serves to de-babelize the current state of affairs for the long haul."