Aramaic du Jour: Discovered that "Intellectual Yet Idiot" translates into Levantine as... "philosopher" (faylasouf!) https://medium.com/@nntaleb/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e2d0577#.dpt9b52xo …
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Same goes for Serbian. Although I suspect the negative conotation is recent in origin. Marxist/communist legacy?
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seems you are correct. The earliest mention I found is from the 80s.
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