Mark Z. Barabak

Mark Z. Barabak @markzbarabak

RT @Noahbierman: Trump just claimed Voice of America is saying things that are "disgusting toward our country." Here's a story I wrote a wh… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @waltmossberg: Our biggest state, California, has only one major, quality news org, the ⁦@latimes⁩. And it’s in trouble. So I just subsc… — PolitiTweet.org

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@jaketapper A portmanteau https://t.co/QukW9Mn4wa — PolitiTweet.org

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Weird Covid-life moment: Walk into a bank wearing a face mask. No one bats an eye. Most doing the same. — PolitiTweet.org

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Run a nationwide election in the throes of a pandemic? South Korea gives it a go. @vicjkim, from Seoul https://t.co/m1AolQegFf — PolitiTweet.org

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Simply put: @NoamLevey https://t.co/2iqWsADNEY — PolitiTweet.org

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"What we’re seeing is the biggest global crisis of our lifetimes with truly no global response." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @hookjan: Trump's hallmarks on the national stage are "his unilateralism, his transactionalism and his challenging personal relations" w… — PolitiTweet.org

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That is all. {Now back to political hackery} — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s the full read: https://t.co/9uh8s6GMcb — PolitiTweet.org

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So which words will fade once the pandemic ends? Dunno. Lexicographer @KoryStamper says “The kinds of words that stick around are the kinds of words we’ll still have reason to use in five years because of the way society has changed or the way technology has moved forward.” — PolitiTweet.org

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The common dialect and winking words like “doomscrolling” suggest we're all in this crisis together. As @Fritinancy put it, “People are casting about for ways to talk about this unprecedented thing that’s happening and it’s a shared experience." — PolitiTweet.org

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The words used by experts are picked up by politicians, public safety officials and the media, then pass into general circulation. But apart from their utilitarian function—informing and keeping use safe—a common vocab can also offer a measure of comfort. — PolitiTweet.org

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As for all those medical and scientific terminologies that are now part of daily discourse, unlike the mysteries surrounding the coronavirus, the means of verbal transmission is pretty clear-cut: — PolitiTweet.org

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Throughout March, the top 50 (!) most searched-for definitions on Merriam-Webster's website COVID-19-related – something he's never seen in nearly two decades of keeping track. — PolitiTweet.org

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Unsettling as they may be, these are boom times for lovers of language. But it’s not just word nerds who’ve been obsessed. Merriam-Webster’s @PeterSokolowski said big events — 9/11, Michael Jackson's death — typically lead to a flood of people looking up certain related words — PolitiTweet.org

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Then there’s newly coined words, like quarantini, zoombombing and coronnial , the latter being the coming generation conceived during all that time spent sheltering in place. — PolitiTweet.org

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As @mashedradish put it, “zoonosis” used to be a word a genius Scrabble player might have played. "Now we’re all familiar that it means spreading from an animal to a human, a la coronavirus. — PolitiTweet.org

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Words like droplets and super-spreader have become a part of regular conversation, along with terms like red zone, social distancing and flattening the curve. Suddenly we’re all epidemiological savants. — PolitiTweet.org

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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed everything, including the way we talk. https://t.co/9uh8s6GMcb — PolitiTweet.org

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And now for something completely different because, variety... {A non-political thread} — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @finneganLAT: Global response to coronavirus stymied by lack of leadership from the U.S. and Trump, via @TracyKWilkinson https://t.co/42… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DavidLauter: One of the big casualties of the #coronavirus has been government transparency, as several of my @latimes colleagues descr… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @hookjan: .@JoeBiden responds to @ewarren's endorsement: "At a moment of crisis for our nation, Senator Warren’s ideas will be more impo… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DavidLauter: Two months into the pandemic, the U.S. still hasn't solved the problem of testing, which is key to any effort to reopen th… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @sherlyholmes: I know times are extremely tough for everyone right now, but if you have the means and have been meaning to subscribe to… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @hookjan: Primaries? What primaries? Here’s how the coronavirus outbreak rewrote the presidential primary calendar https://t.co/BeGLXhR… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @laura_nelson: This really sucks. Not feeling eloquent right now. As the economy falters, ad sales are tanking. If you find the @latim… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @LATSeema: Gov. Gavin Newsom names six goals that must be met to lift California coronavirus order https://t.co/ApKpSQZrMF — PolitiTweet.org

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Musical interlude: https://t.co/4sX50Zn3Kv #Malo — PolitiTweet.org