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German here. A "Verschlimmbesserung" is something that makes one part better and another part worse. If it only makes things worse you don't need a German word for it, you can just call it worse. For things that were intended good, but ended up bad, there's an English idiom: the path to hell is paved with good intentions.
German here. A "Verschlimmbesserung" is something that makes one part better and another part worse. If it only makes things worse you don't need a German word for it, you can just call it worse. For things that were intended good, but ended up bad, there's an English idiom: the path to hell is paved with good intentions.
> For things that were intended good, but ended up bad, there's an English idiom: Better is the enemy of good. Old Italian proverb: "il meglio è nemico del bene" Shakespeare, King Lear: "Striving to better, oft we mar what's well".
I'd say enshitification is a good enough word. Verschlimmbesserung is not widely used these days in Germany.
I'd say enshitification is a good enough word. Verschlimmbesserung is not widely used these days in Germany.
I do like the sound of Verscheissification.
As Picard said: Enshitify! (Apologies to my Trekkie friends.)
Value is now only _extracted_. Place the acquired good into the press and smash it until all but the faintest essence remains among the mash. The squeezings are bottled and saved to pay for future _extractions_. Companies like Valve can continue largely unshittificated because they are private. Once that is no longer the case, all our game rentals will be squozen away from us.
We already have a word for it? "Misfeature" The opposite is the more interesting word though: hit bug. A bug/mistake/fuckup that turns out to improve the software.
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Not a German but Duden disagrees with you [0]: "etwas in der Absicht, es zu verbessern, schlechter machen". [0]: https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/verschlimmbessern
that's not disagreeing at all (american partial german, partial pole)
Office 2003 is a terrible example, office is a product that deliberately makes one part worse on each "upgrade" so that the consumer has a reason to upgrade to another release.