Moody

[liv]

It's a perfect glorious weekend. There was a lovely service this morning (I joined on Zoom). Lots of completely delightful under-5s, two new Jews being welcomed to the community, Torah and Haftarah readers who are exceptionally good with beautiful voices. And it's one of those gorgeous balmy October days, blue sky, actually warm temperature, green trees just starting to turn orange and red. Sometimes there's a Shabbat between Yom Kippur and Succot and it's the most perfect time.

And I'm still testing positive for Covid, so I'm stuck at home and I hate everyone and everything. I can't bring myself to be civil to jack. I know that at worst I'm only stuck in this quarantine for a few more days, I don't even feel particularly ill any more. So I should be cheerful but instead I'm resentful that I can't go out and enjoy the weather and I can't see my friends or my other partners. I have to teach Sunday school on Zoom tomorrow so I should be planning, but I have no enthusiasm for it. I'm not building a succah or making plans to sit in my friends' ones.

Anyway, to distract me from being completely unreasonably grumpy, have a good old-fashioned poll about language use:

Poll #27627 covid terms

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 66

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Which of these might you use to complete the following sentence: "I can't come to your party, I have _____"

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covid
64 (97.0%)

COVID-19
23 (34.8%)

SARS-2
3 (4.5%)

coronavirus
18 (27.3%)

corona
6 (9.1%)

rona
11 (16.7%)

vid
0 (0.0%)

vids
0 (0.0%)

cov
0 (0.0%)

spiky boi
3 (4.5%)

plague
35 (53.0%)

lurgy
9 (13.6%)

Wuhan flu
0 (0.0%)

other term not listed
4 (6.1%)

I would add 'the' before the name of the disease

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yes
2 (3.1%)

no
23 (35.4%)

yes for some names, no for others
40 (61.5%)

Which of these terms might you use to complete the following sentence: "I'm protected from severe illness, I've had my ____"

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vaccines
34 (51.5%)

vaccinations
52 (78.8%)

vax
12 (18.2%)

vaxx
2 (3.0%)

vaccs
4 (6.1%)

shots
29 (43.9%)

jabs
24 (36.4%)

jags
1 (1.5%)

injections
4 (6.1%)

immunisations
11 (16.7%)

other term not listed
6 (9.1%)

Comments

[sorcyress]

"the ronis" is the term I would use that's not listed.

[wildeabandon]

My other requires changing the sentence slightly, but I might say 'I've been stabbed'.

[womump]

Same. And, for the first question, "the round boi".

[mrissa]

Yes, I would say that too. And similar constructions like, "Just wanted to let the family Discord know they're stabbing Grandma today."

[lauradi7dw]

When I'm typing it, I usually write vaxxed instead of vaccinated.

[ironymaiden]

For the last one "I'm vaccinated" instead of "I've had..."

[anais_pf]

But you can step outside, by yourself, and look at whatever is out there (trees, grass, sunshine), right? I say this as a person who is just getting over The Plague herself, and who has not set foot outside for what seems like weeks. Maybe I will go outside today.

[hatam_soferet]

I'll get sécateurs in the morning and we'll make a very silly succah with bins together outdoors. We can all wear masks if you like. And if it's nice in the afternoon we can have carefully distanced tea while Lily's napping before services.

[jack]

<3

[azurelunatic]

I may start saying "spiky boi"!

I've had my boosters, because the general assumption in my circles is that we've had the original series and now it's a matter of keeping it up to date. Though it's not "flu boosters", hmm.

[(Anonymous)]

And I'm still testing positive for Covid, so I'm stuck at home

Only if you want to be. There's no legal requirement to stay at home any more, so anything you're putting yourself through is entirely voluntary.

[lilacsigil]

As an immunocompromised person, I truly appreciate everyone who stays home while testing positive.

[fyreharper]

Legal requirements are not the only type of standards that exist.

I should not, for example, spit in your soup when you are my dinner guest, even I certainly wouldn’t expect any legal consequences to doing so.

[redbird]

I would probably say "I've had the vaccine" or "I've been vaccinated," rather than "I've had my vaccines" or "had my shots."

[redbird]

There's no obligation to be cheerful about being stuck at home, whether you're staying home for your own health, because you believe that public health matters, or for some reason that has nothing to do with covid.

I've spent an awful lot of time at home in the last two and a half years, and being sensible and prudent is difficult enough without being asked to pretend that I don't mind not doing things.

[flippac]

Depending on my symptoms and how well I know the other person I might use "the spicy cough" too

[beckyc]

Lurgy and plague are ones I’d use for non-specific minor respiratory infections (but not flu and not Covid-19 and not anything that made someone seriously ill ), with plague being slightly more jokey. I don’t really use these much since the pandemic started though.

Another term I see a lot is “it”, as in “it finally got me”.

[jack]

Ah! I think maybe I interpreted "plague" as misc infection and "the plague" as covid. I was surprised anyone didn't parse "the plague got me" as referring to *the* plague, but now it makes more sense.

[mair_in_grenderich]

What I see: +1 for "I can't come, it's got us" and also in Germany "can't come, I'm positive" [works less well in English I think...] are the most common on our band WhatsApp. (Or that emoji that looks like a fluffy purple bug).

(He/she/I has/ve Corona in response to 'How are you/they' ...)

What I (think I) would use: "Can't make it tonight sorry"

(In general if you are interested Germany has kept 'Corona' with Corona-legislation and Corona-Tests etc. Same in NL, Belgium (and I think Sweden?). I tried to compromise with 'the rona' for a long time but now mostly say Covid for UK/Oz people. I first heard Covid out loud when I put on CNN/Sky news at the time of the 2020 US election, and it wasn't pronounced how I had been reading it in my head. I also watched some French news at that time, and they had 'covid', and I asked some Italian/Catalan colleagues earlier this year and was told "Fun fact: in Spanish, the preferred form is "el covid" (masculine) and in Catalan we should call it "la covid" (femenine), although a lot of Catalans say "el covid" because of the influence of Spanish :wink:" and "You say "il covid" in Italian, although linguists tried to push "la covid", being D for disease = malattia (feminine in IT)")