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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Peter Bakker <linpb@cc.au.dk><br>
<b>Date: </b>Saturday, 2 May 2020 at 9:18 pm<br>
<b>To: </b>Natalia Levshina <natalevs@gmail.com>, "lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Lingtyp] coronavirus and Zipf<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">In Australian English, corona is being clipped to 'rona. That's what Aussies do...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Tony Thorne (London) has an almost encyclopaedic overview of corona terminology on his website:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#666666">The second part of my Lockdown Lexicon, Covidictionary, Glossary of Coronacoinages. In trying to make sense of our new circumstances, under lockdown, in social
isolation or distancing, we must come to terms with an array of new language, some of it unfamiliar and difficult to process, some pre-existing but deployed in new ways.Many of us, though, are empowering ourselves by inventing and ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">There is also a less serious Covidictionary here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Your go-to dictionary in times of Coronavirus and COVID-19 – Lingoblog</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#666666">Lingoblog.dk goes viral! Ideas worth spreading! Please send this link: all your isolated friends, relatives and colleagues who can be uplifted by some COVID-19
humor. COVIDictionary 20: your go-to …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Fra:</span></b><span style="color:black"> Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org> på vegne af Natalia Levshina <natalevs@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sendt:</b> 2. maj 2020 12:47<br>
<b>Til:</b> lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org><br>
<b>Emne:</b> [Lingtyp] coronavirus and Zipf</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I also have some data from Dutch, German, Russian and Polish. I'm wondering how other languages behave in that respect. In particular,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Prince Charles finally got a crown (korona), but it was the wrong one.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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?
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<p class="MsoNormal">I promise to post a summary if I get enough interesting data.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Many thanks and stay corona(virus)-free!<o:p></o:p></p>
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