Are NZZ, Tamedia and Blick wrong? No, says the linguist. " incorrectly, it has expanded in meaning in recent months." Now it is appearing in various combinations, such as "soft lockdown" or "partial lockdown". Linguists often observe this phenomenon when words are used frequently. "Their radius expands," says Dürscheid.
The pandemic is also a dynamic time for words and their europe rcs data researchers. The vocabulary expands or changes almost daily. And if in the next few weeks - although I hope not - the Federal Council tightens the Corona measures further, the editorial teams will have to come up with something and create a new word. Or maybe they'll do the obvious and headline: "Federal Council imposes curfew". People in the country should understand that this is a further step. In German, many things sound more drastic than the respective English translation.
Twelve years ago I was at Barack Obama's inauguration. A global event, the whole world was looking at the American capital - as it is now. But the world was different than it is today: more hopeful - and above all without a pandemic. January 20, 2009 was a lesson in democracy - and for me a lesson in journalism, in practical journalism.