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Pandemic Slang Quiz

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20 December 2020, 12:07 PM
Steve Miller
Pandemic Slang Quiz
2020 has created a dictionary’s worth of strange new words to describe these strange new times.

How many can you define?

I only got 5 out of 10.


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20 December 2020, 12:11 PM
wtg
6 out of 10. Hadn't heard of many of them so I was guessing. For at least three of the four I got wrong I was guessing between two and picked badly.


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20 December 2020, 12:15 PM
Dan
I'm kinda proud of myself! I got 2 out of 10, and just guessed one of those. Smiler
20 December 2020, 12:20 PM
wtg
Dan - You knew quarantini, right?


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20 December 2020, 12:42 PM
AdagioM
9/10. I spend a lot of time on social media. Does it show?

ROTFLMAO


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20 December 2020, 01:22 PM
ShiroKuro
I got all of them correct Woot . But that's because I obsessively read articles about language, new words etc.
Plus I love portmanteaus portmanteaux!
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20 December 2020, 01:26 PM
Doug
I got 8 right, but all but one were guesses.
20 December 2020, 02:21 PM
Nina
I've heard of almost none of these. I got 6 out of 10, with a lot of guesses.

Also I call foul: you hear of people hanging out with their "bubble" all the time here in Canada. Damn Yankee quizzes. Big Grin
20 December 2020, 02:34 PM
Dan
quote:
Originally posted by wtg:
Dan - You knew quarantini, right?
Nah. I got the one about haircuts. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
20 December 2020, 05:25 PM
pianojuggler
9 out of 10.

Sad!


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20 December 2020, 08:56 PM
Amanda
quote:
Originally posted by Nina:
I've heard of almost none of these. I got 6 out of 10, with a lot of guesses.

Also I call foul: you hear of people hanging out with their "bubble" all the time here in Canada. Damn Yankee quizzes. Big Grin


I thought the term for a self-defined/followed group created for purposes of contagion limitation was a "pod'.

I think these so-called definitions were made up by the author - not reflecting general terms. No wonder so many can be arrived at by guesswork.

Don't think they're genuine widespread social terms.


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20 December 2020, 09:09 PM
piqué
I got 7 right. I only actually had heard of one. The rest I just picked the answers I liked best.


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20 December 2020, 09:09 PM
ShiroKuro
quote:
so-called definitions were made up by the author - not reflecting general terms.


I don't think so (I mean, I don't think the author made any words or defs up). I recognized all of them from seeing them online, either people posting on FB or else reading about them. For example, like quaranteam is a word I have never seen used "in the wild" but I've seen it used in articles about covid. OTOH "pod" is one I see used in the wild all the time.


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20 December 2020, 09:19 PM
jodi
9 out of 10. Thought it was joy surfing.


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21 December 2020, 12:56 PM
AdagioM
quote:
Originally posted by jodi:
9 out of 10. Thought it was joy surfing.


That’s the one I missed. I’ve never heard the term they used. We only talk about doomscrolling around here, anyway.


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