Opinion | The Coronavirus's New Words - The New York Times
on what life will look like in 2021. Of all the personal development opportunities presented by quarantine — knitting, baking sourdough, starting a TikTok — there is none so user-friendly as talking to yourself. Sue Elliott-Nicholls, 52, an actress in Britain, had spent plenty of time listening to her own voice before the pandemic; she makes her living doing voice-overs for television. But when lockdown robbed her of co-worker banter and gossip spilled at the local pub, she began to fill her days with private chatter. She didn’t always have much to say. “My conversations with myself ...