Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

When people tell me that Classical Arabic was never spoken as such only by poets & constructed by scholars my response is: this is the idea. Mandarin is an elite constructed language. As much as we hate the "intellectual elites", one needs them for scholarly languages. 6/n — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 11, 2022

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

Posted May 11, 2022

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At times when few could read & write, scribes had their own lang. Achemenids spoke Old Persian but (their scribes) wrote in Aramaic. Jesus did'nt speak Aramaic (a solely written lang.) but a Galilean dialect. Prob. used Aramaic for scholarly expression. Levant was triglossic. 7/n — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 11, 2022