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ThrowawayR2 23 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Update...

The sibling post's "disimprovement" sounds more natural and has parallel form with pre-existing broadly accepted English words like "disincentive" and "disinfect".

eqvinox 23 days ago [–]

Not sure if that's just me, but "disimprovement" sounds like *removing* an improvement that was previously there…

ThrowawayR2 21 days ago | [–]

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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