Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb
Usual pbm (I can't reply to @NektariaAna in the thread): Whenever the word is in Persian or Indo-Aryan, & exists in Arabic, the origin ~Persian, as here بادنجان. Esp. for Turkish. Arabs were ASSHOLES w/cultural appropriation: Romioi/Levantines, Persians, Chaldeans, Arameans. — PolitiTweet.org
Nektaria Anastasiadou @NektariaAna
Istanbul Greek Idiom #82: Arabs brought the eggplant (badinjan) to Byzantium, where it was renamed μαντζάνα/mantzan… https://t.co/2XvBDgrk4X
