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enshitification is just so onomatopoeically pleasing though. it's also like one of those fun German words, but in English.

It's similar to one of those George Carlin bits where putting a curse word in the middle of an ordinary word changes the power of the word. incredible -> infuckingcredible absolutely -> absofuckinglutely

I just don't know what enification means.

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Tom Scott did a video about this a few years ago.

https://youtu.be/dt22yWYX64w

I think this shows the generational gap between the two of us. I didn't even know what a Tom Scott was.

In German it would be Verscheißigung?

There is already a german word for it, it's called "Verschlimbesserung". Which you could translate to "Improving but making it worse", sounds better in german so. :)

Yeah, but that has no cussword component.

Verschlimmbesserung could be translated as imworsement maybe?

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