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  • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
    111·
    9 months ago

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

      • 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.

          • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
            71·
            9 months ago

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

              • 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…

      • 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

      • 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.

          • 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”.

      • 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