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Re:Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need by ThrowawayR2 on Friday August 28, 2026 @03:41PM (#49483300)
The sibling post's "disimprovement" sounds more natural and has parallel form with pre-existing broadly accepted English words like "disincentive" and "disinfect".
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Re:Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need by eqvinox on Friday August 28, 2026 @09:23PM (#49486071)
Not sure if that's just me, but "disimprovement" sounds like *removing* an improvement that was previously there…
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Re:Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need by ThrowawayR2 on Sunday August 30, 2026 @12:08PM (#49499935)
An improvement isn't all or nothing, it can be incremental. The dis- prefix only indicates that the increment is negative in this case.
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