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Re:Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need by Youden on Friday August 28, 2026 @04:51PM (#49484102)
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

Re:Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need by b3orn on Friday August 28, 2026 @05:01PM (#49484211)
German here, this is the right definition, trying to improve something but ending up making it worse.
Re:Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need by jjtheblunt on Friday August 28, 2026 @11:23PM (#49486606)
that's not disagreeing at all (american partial german, partial pole)
Re:Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need by gpvos on Saturday August 29, 2026 @03:10AM (#49487638)
It is a different meaning from that in the parent comment by OroPla.
Re:Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need by spacechild1 on Saturday August 29, 2026 @08:30AM (#49489392)
Yes, that's the correct definition.
Re:Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need by quink on Saturday August 29, 2026 @11:38PM (#49495471)
I still agree with parent’s definition more because it also covers the ironic, sarcastic case, as well as the inherent ambiguity of the word ‘besser’. Plainly put, ‘better’ for who?

If you just say it as a logical series of making it worse while making it better you miss that the intention of the ‘better’ is the first place wasn’t even the intention to make it better for the user.

Re:Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need by 1718627440 on Sunday August 30, 2026 @04:13AM (#49496731)
But you rarely only worsen it in every direction.