Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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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

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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

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Somehow diglossia resolves in favor of local languages dominated by the prestige one. Gaul was diglossic/w vulgar Latin, for the ruling class. It slowly became the language of the population, but it took 1900 y to complete, until Jules Ferry banned patois frm schools. 8/n — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 11, 2022