Conlangery 147: Naming a disease
Conlangery Podcast
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The Othering Effects of Cholera
When cholera was first detected, it was first detected in India. It picked up the moniker Asiatic cholera, the bubonic plague. And then just a few years before the WHO changed the guidelines, we got MERS coronavirus and MERS stands for Middle East respiratory syndrome.
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