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English has the phrases “jerry-rigged” and “held together by duct tape and baling wire” which, as far as I can tell, mean the exact same thing and were born out of similar impoverished circumstances.

One thing people all over the world have in common is that our ancestors were dirt poor not very long ago, so I would expect this concept to be universal.

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Indian here. Yep, that's pretty much it.

I'm also not a fan of it being glorified because a) it shows how often there are systemic problems in India that force you to resort to "jugaad" to get stuff done and b) culturally, we tend to stick with "good enough" jugaad options instead of aspiring towards higher-quality products and solutions.

Maybe it takes an outsider's view to appreciate jugaad. I'm fully aware that in a resource constrained setting, jugaad is not a choice. But it's either the jugaad way or no way at all. Mature delivery organisations sometimes get lost in their own process optimisation... I worked (more than once) for orgs where we simply wouldn't do anything that took less than a day because the planning, approval and billing processes would take another day.

It's jury-rigged. Jerry-rigged is a malapropism (think "could of", "walla"). But jerry-rigged is so commonly used I think at this point it's 'not wrong'.

They're different words with different shades of meaning.

https://www.dictionary.com/e/jury-rigged-vs-jerry-rigged/

Your link says what I said: it's jury-rig; jerry-built is something else, but people get confused and say jerry-rig; so many people do this that it's 'not wrong'.

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