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[–] Olap@lemmy.world 55 points 2 years ago (1 child) enshitification continues permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 47 points 2 years ago the original author coined it en - shit - ify: [commence] + [ordure] + [make] I guess because it's the start of a long and slow process, that holds the context of it not being as shit before. Whereas without the prefix it suggests a more sudden, decisive and completed act. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Olap@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/en & https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ification#English both combine to make a word that means to add to something making it shitter Shittification would be to make a shit, you could argue that 'en' means that you make something else shitter I think English is weird https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification permalink fedilink source parent
[+] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 47 points 2 years ago the original author coined it en - shit - ify: [commence] + [ordure] + [make] I guess because it's the start of a long and slow process, that holds the context of it not being as shit before. Whereas without the prefix it suggests a more sudden, decisive and completed act. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Olap@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/en & https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ification#English both combine to make a word that means to add to something making it shitter Shittification would be to make a shit, you could argue that 'en' means that you make something else shitter I think English is weird https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification permalink fedilink source parent
[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 47 points 2 years ago the original author coined it en - shit - ify: [commence] + [ordure] + [make] I guess because it's the start of a long and slow process, that holds the context of it not being as shit before. Whereas without the prefix it suggests a more sudden, decisive and completed act. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Olap@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/en & https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ification#English both combine to make a word that means to add to something making it shitter Shittification would be to make a shit, you could argue that 'en' means that you make something else shitter I think English is weird https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification permalink fedilink source parent