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Fri Jun 05 12:29:02 +0000 2020

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

2- Either, in 8th C Levantine Greek (and possibly Romaic "Rum" Greek), β was pronounced "b" or Arabic ب was pronounced "v". Unless it was a convention that switched "v" to "ف". — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 5, 2020 Hibernated

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PHILOLOGY SYMPOSIUM AR THIS The genius of Maestro Al-Jallad @Safaitic: he gets that if Future pple want to know how today's people speak, shd not look at academic books but FB conversations & foreign script MY Q. 1-Discovering "Rab" is lunar not solar (ελ ραβ) not ερραβ. True? — PolitiTweet.org

Mahmoud Rasmi @Decafquest

New episode out! Tune in to DecafQuest #26 chat about the early history of Arabic language with philologist and his… https://t.co/RdiExs4nhd

Posted June 5, 2020 Hibernated

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3- He got it. Bottom up linguistics vs top down. https://t.co/TLmUzHfS0m — PolitiTweet.org

flaneurizer @flaneurizer

@nntaleb @Safaitic bottom-up linguistics

Posted June 5, 2020 Hibernated

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