Language is Alive and Animated: How the Internet Influences Linguistic Change

By the second week of July, everything was cake.

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That bizarre sentence may not make any sense to anyone who has not been spending enough time on the internet lately. It started when BuzzFeed’s Tasty shared a video on Twitter of regular items such as a tissue roll, plant pot and bottle of hand sanitizer that all turn out to be cakes when sliced in the middle.

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Feeling Like a Zombie Lately? It Could be Quarantine Fatigue

The shelter-in-place directive has breached the six-month mark. Everyone has been staying indoors longer than ever before or more than initially anticipated, and it looks like the quarantine will continue. While keeping safe at home with family and loved ones or working from home and avoiding commuting may seem less taxing, a lot of people are starting to feel tired and exhausted cooped up for months on end. Not the cabin fever type of restlessness but a deeper sense of dissatisfaction or helplessness perhaps. Not the “I had a really long day” kind of tired but the “I’m deeply and inexplicably tired and I don’t know what to do about it” kind.  

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