<div dir="ltr">I mean I've heard "digerdöden" in contexts both like "Erik is ill. -- Is it digerdöden?" (illness) and like "The conference is postponed until next year, hopefully digerdöden is over then" (epidemic). I'm not a native speaker, of course, but I think "corona" can be used in both contexts, too. That's probably tangential to Natalia's main question, though.<div><br></div><div>Best, </div><div>Sasha</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 9:06 PM Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm <<a href="mailto:tamm@ling.su.se">tamm@ling.su.se</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Sasha, I am not quite sure I understand your mention of “Digerdöden”: do you want to say that Swedish uses the same term for illnesses and epidemics? I don’t think this is completely true right now. The more official name for the virus is “coronavirus”, while
“corona” is definitely the preferred term in Colloquial Swedish. The current pandemics is normally called “coronapandemin” ‘corona+pandemics+<a href="http://DEF.SG" target="_blank">DEF.SG</a>”, and there are many more compounds based on “corona”: “coronacrisen” ’the corona crisis”, “coronatiden” ’the
corona time’,”coronapatienter” ‘corona patients’, etc.
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<div dir="ltr">In Swedish, people say and write both "corona" (sometimes "korona") and "coronavirus". I think the short form is more frequent in colloquial speech, but I haven't done an extensive corpus analysis. It does not have any popular meaning.
"Digerdöden" 'Black death' (lit. 'Great Death') is also often used to refer both to the pandemic and the disease.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In my circles, we just call it “the virus”, or elide it altogether, as it is presupposed in any conversations involving infection or death.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">An email from a friend who had been out of touch:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">“My husband and I both got really sick last week, but we’re pretty sure it was not the virus.”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">First question after morning greetings in the family: both the virus and the local context presupposed:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">“Have they reported any new infections today?”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">“We’ve been really fortunate so far in Eugene — eight days without a new case and still only two deaths!”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Date: </b>Saturday, May 2, 2020 at 4:27 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>'Natalia Levshina' <<a href="mailto:natalevs@gmail.com" target="_blank">natalevs@gmail.com</a>>, "<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Lingtyp] R: coronavirus and Zipf<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Dear All,</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">the short form for
<i>coronavirus</i> is Covid-19. As in Russian, Ital. <i>corona </i>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Best wishes and take care, without Clorox injections as it has been suggested…</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Da:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Lingtyp [mailto:<a href="mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>]
<b>Per conto di </b>Natalia Levshina<br>
<b>Inviato:</b> sabato 2 maggio 2020 12:47<br>
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<b>Oggetto:</b> [Lingtyp] coronavirus and Zipf</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<i>corona (</i>from<i> coronavirus) </i>is becoming increasingly popular in English: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/public.oed.com/blog/corpus-analysis-of-the-language-of-covid-19/__;!!C5qS4YX3!WEuNp_Qa-vMRc7VqynfDLViq9DneH3GRhvbL2B43pMocej5_JREu_eEmfbyvibZ7$" target="_blank">https://public.oed.com/blog/corpus-analysis-of-the-language-of-covid-19/</a> <u></u><u></u></p>
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<i>koronavirus</i> is the preferred form because <i>korona</i> means 'a crown'. There's an untranslatable Russian joke, <i>Prince Charles finally got a crown (korona), but it was the wrong one.</i><u></u><u></u></p>
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