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  • @[email protected]English
    10•2 years ago

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

      • Zorque
        12•2 years 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.

      • AngryMobEnglish
        4•2 years ago

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

      • @[email protected]English
        2•2 years ago

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

      • livus
        2•2 years ago

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

          • livus
            2•2 years 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”.