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Precipitous parlance in a pandemic COMMENT When this year began, few would have guessed that it would end in multiple pandemics accompanied by an infodemic and a lockdown. A second wave was something for surfers (who were still allowed in the water), social distancing was for snobs, and zol was a noun, not a verb.  This year has given us a whole new lexicon, one most of us would prefer not to have learned. I think wistfully back to when the biggest news story was corruption at Eskom and load-...