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How the Coronavirus Pandemic Shaped Our Language in 2020

Jan 01, 20213 min
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Episode description

Linguist Ben Zimmer says the pandemic has turned us all into amateur epidemiologists utilizing terms such as “superspreader” and “asymptomatic.” Christopher Intagliata reports.

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