「当下，我们见证着词汇奉子成婚似地组成奇异的联姻，新词被病毒驱赶着现身，流行病学术语被 # 缝在一起。仿佛病毒也在语言中类似地蔓延。[…] 是有什么英文专业的人被锁在地下，被逼着写出这些话吗？还是有什么算法生成出来的？」
“Today, we are witnessing the shotgun weddings of words into some strange unions, neologisms sped into existence by this virus, epidemiological vocabulary hitched together by Twitter hashtags. It seems like there is a parallel language contagion occurring. […] Are there English majors chained under the earth, forced to write these lines, or did an algorithm of some kind generate them?”
| How the Coronavirus Has Infected Our Vocabulary | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/13/a-temporary-moment-in-time
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