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"I got tired of waiting for your brilliant alternative. Just checked my spam folder, and it wasn't there, either."
@pluralistic I'd reply (jokingly) with a message about how "well, it beat out corporate-auto-erotic-asphyxiation so I think enshittification is the lesser of two weevils"
@pluralistic I personally think it's prety good, reflects exactly that tech engineering, business strategy, unthinkable amount of money or/and the "best minds of the world that resides silicon valley" are doing nothing but shitty products. In Brazil we say merdificação or bostificação
@pluralistic I kind of like "Zerscheißigung" for the German version.
@DeanC @pluralistic Why not Zerscheißung?
@leckse @pluralistic the folks I know who know German better than me feel that Zerscheißigung is better. Including one actual German and a teacher of German. Actually I started flogging Zerscheißung around first.
@DeanC @pluralistic I’m a native speaker as well.
Zerscheißigung implies that there is an adjective/adverb scheißig (like einig/Vereinigung). But it’s: scheiße sein/scheiße reden.
An alternative translation that is floating around is Verschlimmscheißerung. Which is likely inspired by Verschlimmbesserung (making things worse by trying to improve them). But that would make Verschlimmscheißerung the act of making something worse by making them shitty. That doesn’t make much sense either.
Enshittification doesn’t translate well and probably doesn’t even need a German equivalent. The German publisher simply kept the original title. And that’s fine too.
@pluralistic the other day my daughter asked me "daddy, are all words made up" and she's definitely wiser than this person
@pluralistic I like that it is very translatable, at least in French.
We already had emmerder (verb), emmerdeur-se (noun for a person), emmerdant (adjectif) emmerdement (noun for an event) and now emmerdification (noun for a deliberate process) is the perfect addition to the family.
A very traditional and proper way to enrich our languages.
@pluralistic personally, I love the word. It perfectly describes the situation and it catches attention so people don't just ignore it.
@pluralistic They’re just jealous they didn’t come up with it sooner
@pluralistic „why did you choose such a fucking dumb word and not something more polite, you asshole“ 😂
@pluralistic he must just hate swearing.
Wait...
@pluralistic It's a perfectly cromulent word, someone just needs to embiggen their vocabulary.
@kithrup @pluralistic Mind you I want the abbreviation e13n to catch on, if only to make it easier to keep to character limits on social media accounts
@cstross @kithrup @pluralistic Technically, isn't it e14n? I kind of wish it was shorter, so the abbreviation became e10n 🙃
@cstross @kithrup @pluralistic Or e14n if you spell it right, which the author of that email didn't.
@pluralistic enshittification works well
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They're not entirely wrong. I would've used "fuckitallupified".
@pluralistic You really have to have a high opinion of yourself to email an author with such low effort criticism. Why not just impotently whine on socials like a normal person?
