Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

So it's a mistake to lump spoken & scholarly languages together. Scholarly languages can adapt but must remain backward-compatible. Hence they must not be spoken in casual. Diglossia: the Swiss use a dialect in private, High German in board meetings. Even in France. 4/n — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 11, 2022

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In English one cannot read a novel >200y. But between Cato I & Isaac Newton, Latin remained invariant (>1800 y). "Classical" lang. by definition must transport across time. Class. Arabic has a span of 1700 y; attracted diglossic authors who spoke at home another lang. 3/n — PolitiTweet.org

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Academie Française curatate for such a consistency. But they instigated Vatican II removing Latin from the Cath. church & killing its yuuuge edge in globalization. France thought that French would be the new Latin. But the E-U uses... English, lang. of a nonmember state! 5/n — PolitiTweet.org

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