Miriam Webster, Fatigue Cough, Breath Headache discussed on No Agenda
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And it has to do with acceptance or you know the percentage of people that will actually do it domestic stuff in that report like long co vid kids even get cova let alone get long cove it. Which is something of a myth. Found one more report about the kids and the This is another one called a five year old vaccine. Update is on pbs. She year old got number five. The food and drug administration formally recommended pfizer's covert nineteen vaccine for young children. The cdc makes the final decision next week on the lower dose shots for five to eleven year olds. Meanwhile thousands of new york city's police officers firefighters and others refuse to comply with today's deadline to get vaccinated. They'll be put on unpaid leave starting monday. In illinois a federal judge refused to block vaccine mandates issued by state and local authorities. Some workers there had sought a restraining order. I have some stuff on that as well. But i just like to go back to the new words that you were talking about you know so i'll take being a new word at long Check this and miriam webster. Dictionary is out with this year's crop of four hundred fifty five newly added words they range from tv h. An abbreviation for to be honest to super spreader to fluffer nutter. The sandwich of peanut butter and marshmallow cream and for fathers. Who eat too many fluffer nutters. There's dad all right. Let's look at some of the new words and there it is. I had that exact same clip that you just played a really and it's like we're going to go look at the new words. Yeah i. I will say they picked just picked the top three when you look at the press release is the first three words on there. That's all they had to do. This is how lazy words in here. Well let's look at the corona virus words. I there it is long. Covert right off the bat new word. We played it and right away. It's in the dictionary Definition of condition that is marked by the presence of symptoms such as fatigue cough shortness of breath headache or brain fog which persists for an extended period of time such as weeks or months following a person's initial recovery from cova nineteen infection. It's a thing where the where the we believe it or not Vaccine passport now. The question the guys the vaccine passports ner which is your favorite No it's not but is the house vaccine passport in new work. Thank you afraid. it's not it's not an why would any words in the merriam webster website itself. They're saying these are new word physical or digital document providing proof of vaccination against one or more infectious diseases such as cove in nineteen. But then there's also super spreader. Now i think this is a new word. Yes because it's a word is actually a word they do hyphenate. It's an event or location which a significant number of people contract the same communicable disease often used before so like about hysteria often use before another noun such as in super spreader event the term super spreader originally referred to a slightly to a highly contagious person capable of. Oh this The term super spreader originally referred to a highly contagious person capable of passing on a disease too many other on many others and now can also refer to a single place or location where many others are infected. So they have an old usage and then typhoid mary. The and then again. Two words breakthrough medical outbreaks breakthrough medical nudges breakthrough category medical infection occurring someone who is fully vaccinated against an infectious agent. Often used before another noun such as breakthrough cases or breakthrough. Infection is going. Wanna go a couple near the list cove. It have in front of me from words from online culture and communication at that will be besides. Tb h. w. t. f. Maybe that's already been accepted but this one gets me is because yes you see. Yes i did. It's very interesting because instead of using that word in a traditional sense. Which is you know as connector word that because of this or that you just say because but now now how can we use it differently these days. Well because oh god i just did. That's it i'd like. Am i right as a new word. Am i right all one word. Am i ira it Who'd use that reminds me. There's a couple of social media thing. Yeah i i think i've heard it Digital no mad by the way found would be fewer. Yeah d platform. it's a not hyphen. Finally that word never has a dictionary entry and now hopefully it will end the definition to remove and ban a registered user from a mass communication medium such as a social network or blogging website. Broadly to prevent from having or providing a platform to communicate does sounds pretty evil. That way doesn't it now. Here's one that got me which is copied pasta brother. I didn't see this one. I don't know what this means. Copy pastas and is a data is a big data processing. Supposedly it's been copied and spread widely online is. Something's been copy and and spread widely online copy. Pasta can be a highlighted meam or it can have more serious intent with a political or cultural message. I have never heard this word. How is it now a new word. Have you ever heard it no. Is anyone in the troll room. Have you guys heard this bullcrap word. I think they make these up and put them in. Just deceive we're paying attention. Let's see all the time. okay boomer. Oh it gonna get there. You go no. It seems like a lot of people heard about. I've never heard pasta. You're just out of touch thanks. Let's kick that personnel. Who was that mistake. Hickam mystic kicking you out a couple more often have astroturf which i thought was an old term. That's long since been defined but okay was good bad. What about yeah. That's another another fan favorite and then vote aram a- vote a rama sees how about how about small ball which i thought was something you know affliction you get small. Small small thing was small on here. Gas small ball small ball small ball which is an old old old term. I'm surprises not hasn't been on here before they're going to use these terms. Small bog goes back to billy ball. And in the seventies i think are the eighties. When billy martin was the manager of the as and he was a master of playing small. And it's the type of a approach to baseball where you just nickel and dime people to death with you know bunting and then squeezed bunsen and steals left right Is not new. It's not entirely. It's not even used anymore much. 'cause nobody plays that kind of baseball anymore. They go with a the definition an offensive strategy that involves at bats that advance one or more baserunners into scoring position in basketball. A game strategy used on speed and agility of players as opposed to height and physicality or in general strategy for progressing towards a goal by proceeding and small steps or by addressing small matters..