"Brand new circumstances necessitate a brand new vocabulary to talk about it," he says.
You get the gist.īen Zimmer, the chair of the New Words Committee at the American Dialect Society, and the language columnist for the Wall Street Journal ,is thoroughly enjoying the "creative coinages" coronavirus has engendered. Life before the pandemic was pre-Rona, and an optimistic future takes place post-Rona. Coronavirus is now a person, and her name is Miss Rona, and no one likes her. And yet, you might feel like a Boomer trying to catch up on coronavirus slang. Terms like "epidemiologist," "zoonotic," or "herd immunity" roll off the tongue with surprising ease.
The coronavirus pandemic has likely enriched your vocabulary beyond what you previously considered its limit.
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