Booster, mask requirement, vaccination, lockdown, citizen test, discussion orgy, hospitalization rate, “new normal”, plateau: the two-year state of emergency has done everything possible with the German vocabulary.
Thanks to the virus, he has made even more English words his own, and technical terms such as “herd immunity” have since become much more widely known.
Kim Maurus
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Thanks to the nature of the German language, gruesome words such as corona pandemic containment measures are also possible. And combinations like 2-G-plus or AHA + L + A, which the layman might have prescribed somewhere in higher mathematics before the pandemic, run across the lips as if they had always existed and weren't just the dispassionate one Try to cast the confusion of rules into abstract short forms.
All of this has become a habit, but it is and does not sound beautiful. The German language is actually more creative, if you just think of its numerous idioms, some of which are centuries old and have therefore already survived several pandemics - timeless classics, so to speak. Until now. Because on Twitter, under the hashtag # covidsprichwort, there are now new versions of well-known proverbs, adapted to the pandemic situation.
The principle is simple: replace a word, and a corona wisdom has emerged! There are plenty of examples: “Morgenstund has gold in its mouth” becomes “Morgenstund has a stick in its mouth”; One can read that the wiser one not only gives in, he also gives in to vaccinations. And the quote, celebrated among Spongebob fans, “If the finger is up, you will be praised” becomes a tip for the correct wearing of mouth and nose protection, in which instead of the finger speaks of the mask.
Even the federal government is participating, in the case of the Corona warning app, of course, with self-promotion: "If you don't warn, you won't win," it says from their account. Others are less interested in proverbs than in the ambiguity of words. “I used to want to be a pilot,” says one user. “Now I work in the test center. Sometimes you have to cut corners. ”And the film world also has to bow to the trend, the comedy title“ Sweet home, happiness alone ”marks the beginning - and happiness has to give way to quarantine.
Of course, the trend does not pass by those who otherwise do not take the pandemic so seriously and the measures that protect against it, if they adhere to them enough.
“If you want to see Covidioten, you have to go to #covidproverbs”, warns a user as a precautionary measure.
And sometimes there are tweets that doctors and nurses would never sign.
"Those who do not honor the vaccine are not worth the intensive care bed," it says at one point.
But there is one thing most should agree, at least emotionally: “Everything has an end”, writes one user.
"Just none Corona."