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Calling people ‘the unvaccinated’ could be a deadly shift in language | The Angry Grammarian

That subtle shift from adjective to noun — what nerds call nominalization — affects how vaccinated people view the unvaccinated, and how the unvaccinated view themselves.

This summer we’ve seen the explosion of unvaccinated as a noun, as in, “a pandemic of the unvaccinated.”
This summer we’ve seen the explosion of unvaccinated as a noun, as in, “a pandemic of the unvaccinated.”Read moreDzmitry Dzemidovich / Getty Images/iStockphoto