Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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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

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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

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W. Aramaic became the spoken lang. of the Levant later, thanks to mechanism of elite language becoming spoken. Today in the Levant people speak the dialect, but almost never write it. When I write in it, they reply in... English. Arabic is hard, reserved for Newspapers. 9/n — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 11, 2022