Pandemic generates slew of new German words

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The Leibniz Institute for the German Language tracks new words in the German language, and has found that the past year has generated a slew of new words around the pandemic — from “overzoomed” (stress resulting from video calls) to “impfneid” (vaccine envy.) Host Marco Werman speaks to Christine Möhrs of the Leibniz Institute, from Mannheim.

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