<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi All,<div class="">Interesting that people aren’t distinguishing between the coronavirus (SARS-COV-2) and the illness caused by the virus (COVID-19). For those of us who went through the SARS outbreak of 2003 (I was in Hong Kong, the epicentre, at the time), this is just SARS-2. And I have heard other people here in Singapore also call it just “SARS” without the 2. The illness is usually called COVID-19, following the media (we get updates very several times a day from the government, and they are consistent in this usage).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All the best,</div><div class="">Randy</div><div class=""><div class="">
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LaPolla, PhD FAHA</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;" class=""> </span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Microsoft JhengHei', sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;" class="">(羅</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: SimSun; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;" class="">仁地</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Microsoft JhengHei', sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;" class="">)</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;" class="">Professor of Linguistics, with courtesy appointment in Chinese, School of Humanities </span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;" class="">Nanyang Technological University</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; background-color: white;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;" class="">HSS-03-45, 48 Nanyang Avenue| Singapore 639818</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;" class=""><a href="http://randylapolla.net/" style="color: purple;" class="">http://randylapolla.net/</a></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; background-color: white;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;" class="">Most recent books:</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; background-color: white;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;" class="">The Sino-Tibetan Languages, 2nd Edition (</span></i><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;" class="">2017)</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; background-color: white;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;" class=""><a href="https://www.routledge.com/The-Sino-Tibetan-Languages-2nd-Edition/LaPolla-Thurgood/p/book/9781138783324" style="color: purple;" class="">https://www.routledge.com/The-Sino-Tibetan-Languages-2nd-Edition/LaPolla-Thurgood/p/book/9781138783324</a></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; background-color: white;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;" class="">Sino-Tibetan Linguistics </span></i><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;" class="">(2018)</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; background-color: white;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;" class=""><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Sino-Tibetan-Linguistics/LaPolla/p/book/9780415577397" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class="">https://www.routledge.com/Sino-Tibetan-Linguistics/LaPolla/p/book/9780415577397</span></a></span></div></div></span></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 3 May 2020, at 9:01 AM, Maia Ponsonnet <<a href="mailto:maia.ponsonnet@uwa.edu.au" class="">maia.ponsonnet@uwa.edu.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Hello, </div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">I haven't done any counts, but I feel that my interlocutors in Australia (English) and in France (French) very predominantly talk about "COVID" (without the 19, even in writing). </div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">My impression is that "coronavirus" occurs in the media and possibly particularly in more medical articles; and only very rarely "corona". </span><br class=""></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Interestingly, the "corona" truncation makes me feel very uncomfortable, it makes me cringe. I'm not sure why. Perhaps truncation comes with a sense of positive familiarity that my ear finds inappropriate in this situation? Perhaps my romance-native self doesn't like the association with a crown? Probably a bit of both. I prefer the dry, technical, relatively ugly "COVID". </div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Kind regards, Maïa </div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 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width: 733.03125px;" class=""><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org" class="">lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>> on behalf of Claire Bowern <<a href="mailto:clairebowern@gmail.com" class="">clairebowern@gmail.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Sunday, 3 May 2020 6:22 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Ernei Ribeiro <<a href="mailto:ernei8299@gmail.com" class="">ernei8299@gmail.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>LINGTYP LINGTYP <<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" class="">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Lingtyp] R: coronavirus and Zipf</font><div class=""> </div></div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Around New Haven (Connecticut) I'm mostly hearing COVID, COVID-19, or sometimes CV (and of course the 'rona from Australian facebook). These generalizations about "English" need more qualification. There are also a lot of circumlocutions (not exactly a protective euphemism but somewhat reminiscent).<div class="">Claire</div></div><br class=""><div class="x_gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 8:48 AM Ernei Ribeiro <<a href="mailto:ernei8299@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">ernei8299@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="x_gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr" class="">Dear Natalia,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In Brazilian Portuguese, the humorous form<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">coronga vírus</i> (or sometimes only<i class="">coronga</i>) is being used. Coronga is a species of fish, but I</div><div class="">think that the word is unrelated to this. This form is used just because it sounds funny.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class="">Ernei</div></div><br class=""><div class="x_gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 8:27 PM Paolo Ramat <<a href="mailto:paoram@unipv.it" target="_blank" class="">paoram@unipv.it</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="x_gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div lang="IT" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Dear All,<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">the short form for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">coronavirus</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is Covid-19. As in Russian, Ital.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">corona<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>means<i class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>‘</i>crown’; therefore it is not used as clipping for the virus name; and there have been jokes like the Russian on Prince Charles.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Best wishes and take care, without Clorox injections as it has been suggested…<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">P.Rt.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Da:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Lingtyp [mailto:<a href="mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank" class="">lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">Per conto di<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Natalia Levshina<br class=""><b class="">Inviato:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>sabato 2 maggio 2020 12:47<br class=""><b class="">A:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank" class="">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a><br class=""><b class="">Oggetto:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[Lingtyp] coronavirus and Zipf<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Dear colleagues,<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">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<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">corona (</i>from<i class="">coronavirus) </i>is becoming increasingly popular in English: <a href="https://public.oed.com/blog/corpus-analysis-of-the-language-of-covid-19/" target="_blank" class="">https://public.oed.com/blog/corpus-analysis-of-the-language-of-covid-19/</a> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">I also have some data from Dutch, German, Russian and Polish. I'm wondering how other languages behave in that respect. In particular,<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">1) Is there a shorter form for coronavirus, like<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">corona</i>? Can it only refer to the virus, or also to the pandemic and the disease?<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">2) If there is such a form, is it used widely or occasionally (e.g. humorously/creatively/in quotes)? For example, in Russian<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">koronavirus</i> is the preferred form because<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">korona</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>means 'a crown'. There's an untranslatable Russian joke, <i class="">Prince Charles finally got a crown (korona), but it was the wrong one.</i><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">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)?<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">4) Also, are there any other abbreviations or substitutions (e.g. the use of a shorter formally unrelated word, like<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">car</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>instead of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">automobile</i>) related to the pandemic you have observed? <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div><div class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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