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Miriam

Social distancing and covidiots - words and expressions in connection with the Coronavirus pandemic

In the last few months we got used to using words and expressions that we haven't commonly used before (lockdown, superspreader, social distancing, flatten the curve) or that even didn't exist before the pandemic (covidiot). Here's an article about newly created word in English (I only knew "covidiot":

<a href="https://www.dictionary.com/e/s/new-words-we-created-because-of-coronavirus/#1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.dictionary.com/e/s/new-words-we-created-because-of-coronavirus/#1</a>;

For those who are interested in the linguistic effects of the Coronavirus in German, I can recommend this page (in German):

<a href="https://gfds.de/das-coronavirus-aus-sprachlicher-sicht/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gfds.de/das-coronavirus-aus-sprachlicher-sicht/</a>;.

What are words and expressions that you haven't used before the pandemic but are now very common in your native or target language? What words and expressions do you know that were created to describe a phenomenom of this pandemic?

2020年6月3日 08:07

评论 · 9

Balconazi

It was used for people that, from their balconys during the strictest lockdown period, pointed out others because of their wrong behavior (not using masks, walking in groups together...), shouting and insulting them, calling the police and, the most extremists, even throwing eggs to the "criminals".

2020年6月3日

@John

Thanks for sharing this word! I haven't heard it before.

@Guillem

Yeah, it's a strange feeling that one can now enter a bank with a mask which wasn't possible before.

2020年6月3日

I call desinfectatutti ( sanitise everything in Spanish / Italian ) to my wife, every time I come back from the supermarket she spray me all over my body with a water & bleach solution before I enter into the house. After that she orders me to sanitise every single item that I bought ... including the bananas.

My skin and hair are getting white ... this is not fair.

2020年6月5日