Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@Marcellenassif @WalstarW @HsenAndil These languages (like Akkadian and Heb) focus on body parts, and have tended to atrophy outside. Ironically we only use it outside body parts: 3yunik not 3ayntaynik, shféfék, not shftaynik, ejreik not ejrtaynak. Worth a PHILO PUZZLE du jour — PolitiTweet.org

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@WalstarW @HsenAndil @Marcellenassif The Lebanese don't often use dual: ideik, ejreik, etc. are plural not dual. "irfa3 yadaik => shil idék". — PolitiTweet.org

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PHILOLOGY PUZZLE DUJOUR Hebrew, Phoenician, Akkadian,& Arabic have dual, not Aramaic-Syriac Hebr/Phncian focus on body parts (2 eyes, legs, etc.), dual atrophies elsewhere, but Lebanese has dual ONLY OUTSIDE body parts: Ideik, 3yunak, shféfék, ejreik are pl. Friends, any idea? — PolitiTweet.org

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