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  • xor@infosec.pubEnglish
    317·
    9 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@kbin.social
      12·
      9 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.

      • xor@infosec.pubEnglish
        114·
        9 months ago

        i’ve already talked about it more than i care about it

        • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
          71·
          9 months ago

          “I have an irrational dislike of it and can’t defend my opinion with facts.”

          • xor@infosec.pubEnglish
            14·
            9 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”

            • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
              32·
              9 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…

              • xor@infosec.pubEnglish
                22·
                9 months ago

                chill out man, stop freaking out over your stupid word

    • AngryMob@lemmy.oneEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      What you describe as the word’s flaws make it perfect though. The word itself is an icon for the actions it describes

    • VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

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

      • xor@infosec.pubEnglish
        12·
        9 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@kbin.social
      2·
      9 months ago

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

      • xor@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        9 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@kbin.social
          2·
          9 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”.