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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Fra:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org>
<b>På vegne af </b>Hartmut Haberland<br>
<b>Sendt:</b> 2. maj 2020 14:39<br>
<b>Til:</b> Paolo Ramat <paoram@unipv.it>; 'Natalia Levshina' <natalevs@gmail.com>; lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org<br>
<b>Emne:</b> Re: [Lingtyp] R: coronavirus and Zipf<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Here’s an Italian version.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Fra:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org">lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>>
<b>På vegne af </b>Paolo Ramat<br>
<b>Sendt:</b> 2. maj 2020 13:27<br>
<b>Til:</b> 'Natalia Levshina' <<a href="mailto:natalevs@gmail.com">natalevs@gmail.com</a>>;
<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a><br>
<b>Emne:</b> [Lingtyp] R: coronavirus and Zipf<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">the short form for
<i>coronavirus</i> is Covid-19. As in Russian, Ital. <i>corona </i>means<i> ‘</i>crown’; therefore it is not used as clipping for the virus name; and there have been jokes like the Russian on Prince Charles.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Best wishes and take care, without Clorox injections as it has been suggested…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Da:</span></b><span lang="IT" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Lingtyp [<a href="mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org">mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>]
<b>Per conto di </b>Natalia Levshina<br>
<b>Inviato:</b> sabato 2 maggio 2020 12:47<br>
<b>A:</b> <a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a><br>
<b>Oggetto:</b> [Lingtyp] coronavirus and Zipf<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">I'm writing an informal blog post about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on language, with a focus on Zipf's correlation between frequency and word/expression length. For example, the clipping
<i>corona (</i>from<i> coronavirus) </i>is becoming increasingly popular in English: <a href="https://public.oed.com/blog/corpus-analysis-of-the-language-of-covid-19/">https://public.oed.com/blog/corpus-analysis-of-the-language-of-covid-19/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">1) Is there a shorter form for coronavirus, like
<i>corona</i>? Can it only refer to the virus, or also to the pandemic and the disease?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">2) If there is such a form, is it used widely or occasionally (e.g. humorously/creatively/in quotes)? For example, in Russian
<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><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">3) Is there a popular everyday (i.e. non-astronomic) meaning of the word that corresponds to corona in that language (e.g. a crown, like in Russian)?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">4) Also, are there any other abbreviations or substitutions (e.g. the use of a shorter formally unrelated word, like
<i>car</i> instead of <i>automobile</i>) related to the pandemic you have observed? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">I promise to post a summary if I get enough interesting data.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">Many thanks and stay corona(virus)-free!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">Natalia Levshina<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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