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Why Speaking English May Spread More Coronavirus Than Some Other Languages
Forbes ^ | September 8 2020 | Alison Escalante

Posted on 08/01/2021 3:06:50 PM PDT by xp38

New research suggests that English speakers put more droplets into the air when they talk, which may make them more likely to spread COVID-19. Since the novel coronavirus is spread by droplets, how spitty a language is might contribute to different rates of the disease. It all comes down to something called aspirated consonants, the sounds we make that spray more droplets of saliva into the air.

In college, everyone knew which professors spit the most when they lectured. The front rows of their classes were always empty after the first day of class, because the high achievers who sat there had been bathed with the lecturer’s saliva. When a lecture was particularly boring, students might find themselves fascinated by the way the sunlight caught droplets of spit, hanging in the air around the professor.

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I know this is from last year but a search seems to show we missed this little morsel of insanity.
1 posted on 08/01/2021 3:06:50 PM PDT by xp38
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I know this is from last year but a search seems to show we missed this little morsel of insanity.

We missed this morsel of insanity because we’ve all. been served up a heaping plate of Covid insanity. Makes it hard to notice the crumbs.


2 posted on 08/01/2021 3:10:18 PM PDT by Flick Lives (We may or may not have reached herd immunity, but we've definitely achieved herd stupidity.)
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Lol, of course somebody has to go there...


3 posted on 08/01/2021 3:12:23 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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Cretinous.


4 posted on 08/01/2021 3:12:24 PM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation. )
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To: xp38

NOT the Babylon Bee ... I thought for sure it would be!


5 posted on 08/01/2021 3:14:05 PM PDT by Qiviut (Faith is the antidote to fear. Mindset: be a victor, not a victim.)
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To: xp38

Forbes owned by the Chinese Communist Party


6 posted on 08/01/2021 3:15:14 PM PDT by butlerweave
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I’m just shaking my head...


7 posted on 08/01/2021 3:15:23 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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We know a lot of folks that should “STFU!”. Just sayin’. 🐂💩🤡


8 posted on 08/01/2021 3:15:27 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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Cause of Death:

Massive dose of aspirated consonants. Deceased had a front-row seat to see Hamlet. He loved Shakespeare even to the end...


9 posted on 08/01/2021 3:17:07 PM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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Russian owned rag posts anti-English sentiment


10 posted on 08/01/2021 3:17:17 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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More than German?


11 posted on 08/01/2021 3:17:28 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Not the Babylon Bee. Hmmm, this is happening more and more often.


12 posted on 08/01/2021 3:18:24 PM PDT by Kevmo (Right now there are 600 political prisoners in Washington, DC.)
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To: Deo volente

He chose not to be.


13 posted on 08/01/2021 3:18:53 PM PDT by xp38
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”Thufferin’ thuccotash.”

14 posted on 08/01/2021 3:20:15 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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LOLOLOLOL, that’s pretty darn funny. One of the most stupid things I’ve heard in my life.

Maybe when you speak with a Southern accent, the drawl will help you spread CoVid less. 🤣


15 posted on 08/01/2021 3:20:55 PM PDT by FamiliarFace
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LOL

“Good night, sweet prince, / and Fauci sing thee to thy rest.”


16 posted on 08/01/2021 3:23:16 PM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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Nonsense! I had to wear a raincoat in my high school French class. Bless Madame Fluette’s heart.


17 posted on 08/01/2021 3:23:20 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. Obama free since 1/20/17. PTL ~ Þ )
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How long till this is included in a list of proofs of “White Guilt”? English is White originated as I think that the Robin Hood movie with the Black Saracen companion is a bit of false history. So now it will be English Speakers who are major vectors of disease contamination!


18 posted on 08/01/2021 3:24:17 PM PDT by SES1066 (Ask not what the LEFT can do for you, rather ask what the LEFT is doing to YOU!)
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more ways to balkanize and demonize groups of people

thank you libtard overlords


19 posted on 08/01/2021 3:26:39 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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> More than German? <

Some wit once remarked that the Germans invented their language just so they could spit at foreigners under the guise of polite conversation.


20 posted on 08/01/2021 3:28:00 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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