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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">De :</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org>
<b>De la part de</b> Maia Ponsonnet<br>
<b>Envoyé :</b> dimanche 3 mai 2020 03:01<br>
<b>Cc :</b> LINGTYP LINGTYP <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org><br>
<b>Objet :</b> Re: [Lingtyp] R: coronavirus and Zipf<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">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). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">My impression is that "coronavirus" occurs in the media and possibly particularly in more medical articles; and only very rarely "corona". <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">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". <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Kind regards, Maïa <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Dr Maïa Ponsonnet<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org">lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>>
on behalf of Claire Bowern <<a href="mailto:clairebowern@gmail.com">clairebowern@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, 3 May 2020 6:22 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Ernei Ribeiro <<a href="mailto:ernei8299@gmail.com">ernei8299@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> LINGTYP LINGTYP <<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Lingtyp] R: coronavirus and Zipf</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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). <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 8:48 AM Ernei Ribeiro <<a href="mailto:ernei8299@gmail.com" target="_blank">ernei8299@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In Brazilian Portuguese, the humorous form <i>coronga vírus</i> (or sometimes only
<i>coronga</i>) is being used. Coronga is a species of fish, but I<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">think that the word is unrelated to this. This form is used just because it sounds funny.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 8:27 PM Paolo Ramat <<a href="mailto:paoram@unipv.it" target="_blank">paoram@unipv.it</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Dear All,</span><span lang="IT"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">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="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Best wishes and take care, without Clorox injections as it has been suggested…</span><span lang="IT"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><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 [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>
<b>A:</b> <a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a><br>
<b>Oggetto:</b> [Lingtyp] coronavirus and Zipf</span><span lang="IT"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><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/" target="_blank">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="xmsonormal"><span lang="IT">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></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="IT">1) Is there a shorter form for coronavirus, like
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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><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><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="xmsonormal"><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="xmsonormal"><span lang="IT">Many thanks and stay corona(virus)-free!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="IT">Natalia Levshina<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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