So then the same thing could have happened with French, in that a change in how it was used, namely that it started being used in literature, caused an arbitrary decision to be made about its status as a language.
Even if true, that is beside the point.
The Tower of Babel story is very clear that it is not describing arbitrary classifications:
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Genesis 11:7 (NRSV):
Come, let us go down, and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another's speech.'
The story is about intelligibility
will not understand one another's speech'.
Do you have any evidence of languages or dialects diverging beyond intelligibility because of 'technical jargon used by specialists'?
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