Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

PHILOLOGY DU JOUR February in Chr Aramaic is Shbat,ܫܒܳܛ, "blows" from " רוח נשבת" (the wind blows, original Accadian Šabātu) hence "windy month". (Others were ~Babylonian gods). Remarkably the French Revolution renamed "Ventôse" (windy month) the span from Feb ~19-March 19. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 8, 2020 Hibernated

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RT @mikeandallie: Adding to the prior retweet to say that Nassim's 2019 paper linked below plus the recent work of @ole_b_peters and @alex_… — PolitiTweet.org

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@GeorgeJNasr "months of companionship" (huddled around the fire) so Kanun comes from the month. https://t.co/xUgnehmFgX — PolitiTweet.org

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