Languages evolve and adapt to new realities and circumstances. The COVID-19 outbreak has not been an exception.
Since day one we saw newly coined words being used across social media, memes, and even mainstream media.
One of the first things that come to mind when you think out the ongoing pandemic is how easy it has become to make a distinction between “social distancing” and “physical distancing”- the terms we'd never thought about until 2020!
Language is a living thing and we're constantly inventing new words and phrases, and, of course, there's a word for that, too: neologisms.
Let's go through some of them:
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| credit: urban dictionary |
We can't possibly be certain which of these neologisms will stay with us and which ones will fade into oblivion as soon as we get effective treatments and the pandemic is over. We’ll only find this out with time.
