Post A5s3nPnieAzTQ3d8pE by generika@bananachips.club
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(DIR) Post #A5rzKUTtlccHijJNmC by laggard@doesnt.undo.it
2021-04-03T12:51:42.372266Z
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Does English have any word for "verschlimmbessern"? :thaenkin:
(DIR) Post #A5rzMsal5y2j4rex16 by laggard@doesnt.undo.it
2021-04-03T12:52:09.298752Z
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Its meaning in German is "to make something worse in a failed attempt to improve it"
(DIR) Post #A5rzRkHNQdyykCujjc by a_breakin_glass@chaos.social
2021-04-03T12:52:46Z
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@laggard "YouTube redesigns" :')
(DIR) Post #A5rzY4ubd6HWTOHbIu by swift@merveilles.town
2021-04-03T12:53:59Z
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@laggard no single word I can think of, but variations on "if it ain't broke, try and fix it 'til it is" are somewhat common jokes.
(DIR) Post #A5rzw9ZzvXuZtp7ixk by zaun@fedi.absturztau.be
2021-04-03T12:58:31.954731Z
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@laggard making shit worse
(DIR) Post #A5rzxa2P2evAFP5eSG by laggard@doesnt.undo.it
2021-04-03T12:58:46.815351Z
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@zaun doesn't convey the same meaning
(DIR) Post #A5s042sgiSPvROd3U8 by zaun@fedi.absturztau.be
2021-04-03T12:59:57.425840Z
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@laggard oh wrong account oops... But it sorta does, it usually implies there was an attempted to improve
(DIR) Post #A5s09L6APa5hOBSS24 by laggard@doesnt.undo.it
2021-04-03T13:00:54.260565Z
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@zaun Implicitly, maybe, but you could totally say "He totally meant to make shit worse"
(DIR) Post #A5s1BlhUZp72QXdeiW by Luke@mastodon.sdf.org
2021-04-03T13:09:18Z
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@laggard not a word but the idiom “1 step forward, 2 steps backward” sort of covers it.
(DIR) Post #A5s3P2vG3aD9VsXKIS by ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz
2021-04-03T13:26:24Z
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@laggard I use "farpotshket", which is the Yiddish work for:"Broken, because you 'fixed' it".As far as I know English doesn't have its own word for that, although the concept is common enough that when I say "farpotshket" people are delighted.
(DIR) Post #A5s3nPnieAzTQ3d8pE by generika@bananachips.club
2021-04-03T13:40:09Z
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@laggard An old Bavarian person here has rejected that word ad improper lol. Disimprove is not great. In the spirit of making up conjunctions i suggest mishelp.
(DIR) Post #A5s3nQ9LLmHuV7kPWy by laggard@doesnt.undo.it
2021-04-03T13:41:45.114019Z
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@generika I mean, wiktionary lists it as "somewhat informal" so he might not be wrong :bloblul:
(DIR) Post #A5s439KNf5RcxhPUbA by georgia@netzsphaere.xyz
2021-04-03T13:44:35.207476Z
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@laggard we have the idiom "digging a deeper hole" but it (mostly) applies to amending mistakes that got you into trouble socially
(DIR) Post #A5s4gJuqEHHj5t8tWK by cassidyclown@kiwifarms.cc
2021-04-03T13:51:41.704317Z
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@georgia @laggard similarly- "treading it around" as in "When you step in the shit, don't tread it around" as my dear pa is fond of saying :blobblush:
(DIR) Post #A5slwhT8isQgnzF4gC by mezzodrinker@social.mezzo.moe
2021-04-03T21:56:05Z
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@laggard Several Leo threads suggest "disimprove".→ https://dict.leo.org/german-english/verschlimmbessern
(DIR) Post #A7iGPgSJVDUeEuO4rQ by 4nf95q643hf8wy4987fqn@botsin.space
2021-05-28T15:58:23Z
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@laggard toki pona has one, very surprisingly and specifically"yupekosi"which is funny because your displayname is also a toki pona word
(DIR) Post #A7iGRP0LM9hIh97kcS by laggard@doesnt.undo.it
2021-05-28T15:58:59.022958Z
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@4nf95q643hf8wy4987fqn oh really, what's it mean?
(DIR) Post #A7iGophSGmw49KSgPA by 4nf95q643hf8wy4987fqn@botsin.space
2021-05-28T16:01:37Z
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@laggard it's a very controversial community-created grammar particle, to give context to a statement but put in a different place relative to it this time :> unsurprisingly, it's one of my favorite words