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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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SEMITIC PHILOLOGY DuJour The root RB from the Akkadian Rabu(m) is to grow, get bigger; Rab is "great" and "master". Also => "to measure" Hence both Aramaic & Arabic use "riba" for interest, Ar. tarbiya for education. Mrabba might come from "treatment". https://t.co/xl8CjSRFaA — PolitiTweet.org

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The Hebrew word for jam is רִבָּה. It was coined by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda in 1888. He didn't think he was coining a ne… https://t.co/39TU9goggu

Posted Jan. 22, 2021 Hibernated

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Seimit Philology DuJour The root RB from the Akkadian Rabu(m) is to grow, get bigger; Rab is "great" and "master". Also => "to measure" Hence both Aramaic & Arabic use "riba" for interest, Ar. tarbiya for education. Mrabba might come from "treatment". https://t.co/RqhmIU7rbu — PolitiTweet.org

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The Hebrew word for jam is רִבָּה. It was coined by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda in 1888. He didn't think he was coining a ne… https://t.co/39TU9goggu

Posted Jan. 22, 2021 Hibernated Just a Typo

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@RichardHanania His mother told me she does not self-define as "Arab". Levantine is not Arab. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 22, 2021 Hibernated