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Conlangery 147: Naming a disease

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The Role of Language in Naming Diseases

Loan loan resistant languages are a factor involved. People choosing what name to call the virus based on their own political ideals. There's some interesting things going on like even in Chinese. You have, you know, holds and measles and, and malaria and all kinds of other sources for disease names if you want. It was that sort of the that political angle was sort of just our jumping off point today.

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