• @[email protected]
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    108 months ago

    Yeah, we’re a society. Things happen outside of grammar and word rules handed down to us from above…

    • @[email protected]
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      38 months ago

      lol, no rules… it’s just a stupid word that sounds stupid and makes anyone who uses it look stupid…
      Shakespeare invented tons of words, and they were all great, inventing new words is great. enshittification, in particular, is just lazy and dumb
      p.s. love it when people do dumb shit and then defend the general category of what they’re doing as if that was the problem

      • Zorque
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        128 months ago

        Why, in objective terms, is it lazy and dumb? Or do you just not like it?

        Plenty of useful and appropriate words are used by people in dumb ways, that does not make the words themselves dumb.

            • @[email protected]
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              18 months ago

              “i feel personally injured by someone else not liking something that i like, so i will harass and berate them for saying so”

              • @[email protected]
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                38 months ago

                Lol relax. No one is being “harassed” here, we’re discussing on a public forum. No one forced you to post your dumb opinion or triple-down on it. You still think you’re right? That’s totally fine, but you must realize people are not always going to agree with you…

      • @[email protected]
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        28 months ago

        It’s main problem is that people overuse it massively and act like they’re saying something really clever by using it

        • @[email protected]
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          18 months ago

          🛎️ 🔔 🔔
          yep. it’s like pseudo-intellectuals got too lazy to learn big words and use them incorrectly, so they just added syllables to “shitty”

      • livus
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        28 months ago

        Fair enough but what word do you use instead of enshittification? It filled a gap in the language.

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          18 months ago

          depends on the context:
          “exploitation”
          “make it shitty”
          ruined
          “fucked it up”
          if it was used way less, in non-pseudo-intellectual contexts, i wouldn’t care…
          there is a term for companies buying companies and lowering the quality of the product while capitalizing on the brand reputation… i forget it though…

          i mean, i barely care but people keep commenting on this so i feel like replying.

          parentification is another one like that. just verbifying the noun and sticking “ification” on the end to have more syllables.

          you could just write out, “children being forced into parenting roles” or something…
          In large families, the eldest child has traditionally taken on more parent-like responsibilities… it’s not new and if it really needs it’s own word, it deserves a more thought out word structure than just:
          “+ification and now let’s try to spread the word and get people to take me seriously!”

          • livus
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            28 months ago

            Before I reply I just wanna say I’m not trying to fight or argue I’m just quite interested in language.

            All your context-dependent examples are verbs, whereas “enshitification” is a noun - a state of being. That’s why it fills a gap in English.

            Otherwise you need an entire sentence to describe that process A happened to B thing and the result is C state.

            It doesn’t seem intellectual at all to me, I mean it has the word shit in it and its closest contender for meaning is probably “fuckedupness”.