Corvinus documents an era and a disease
21/06/2022
Mascne, Sputnik, virus cop, ‘rasztazenekar’ (rasta band meaning Astra Zeneca), ‘győrfipálik’ (related to Pál Győrfi), ‘vakcing’ (shirt for vaccination), ‘elolt’ (use up all the vaccines). Among others, these words were discussed on 14 June 2022 at the launch of the 2nd edition of the Quarantine Dictionary in the Három Szerb Café. The author of the book, dr Ágnes Veszelszki linguist, associate professor and Head of Department at the Corvinus University of Budapest and Pál Győrfi, the spokesman of the National Ambulance Service were the guests of Miklós Blankó.