The issue of modern-day tongues has been one of those issues that has caused me to shake my head in disgust for many years. It is not an anti-charismatic thing but a hermeneutical- 
sufficiency- of- Scripture- sensational- mystical- deflect- from- the- gospel kind of thing. I have posted on it several times, but our blogosphere comrade Dan Phillips has a great, succinct little post on it currently. Here is my favorite part:
First: Paul doesn’t say he does speak in angelic languages. The syntax is hypothetical: “Suppose I should speak in the languages of men and of angels, but do not have love.” A hypothetical constitutes a pretty poor platform for a major edifice.Second: suppose tongues are angelic languages. What of it? Name one instance when an angel appeared and said,”Hoogada bagalalla boola, lalapnanda horishi-como! Badooya-bip sh-bop ba da bing! Ohhhhh hondala shondala palallamandaaaaaaa!” Never happened — at least not in Scripture. And that’s supposed to matter to us Biblical Christians, right?
This is why the common response to angelic appearances is terror, not head-scratching bafflement. The angels’ way of saying “Hello” is “Do not fear.” Never is an angel forced to slap his forehead and exclaim, “Oh, sorry! Silly me — I slipped back into my native non-corporeal tongue again. So… Hebrew, is it? Is this better?”
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*laughter* Stop already!
This reminds me of a hilarious article I found last fall about glossolalia. I reproduced it here, for those of you who are interested.
Some Pentecostals and Charismatics insist that Tongues must be human languages, they just do not know which ones.
Angelic tongue speaking may or may not have been a real thing, but if it was real. it proves little.
God Bless
Matthew
…and I owe it all to being a dispensationalist.
KIDDING! JUST KIDDING!
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Jason, your posts on cessationism have been a big help to me. I am curious, however, as to why these haven’t been met with more resistence. Whenever I post on the subject things don’t go quite so smoothly. I guess you guys just scared all the whimpy guys off, huh?
SDG
Stephen, now that was funny!
dyspraxic, your name is funny.
Dan, your post and comment above I might add were the best things I read all week. I guess I needed some good laughs. Thanks brother.
And Nathan, I think it is the spiked collar that does it.