2023 Word of the Year is "enshittification"

[_Microft]

https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshittification/

[wkat4242]

Good to see some more mainstream attention to this term.

It gets a lot of criticism because it's kinda crude, but so is the behaviour it stands for. So I think it's perfect.

[weikju → wkat4242]

Indeed. Everyone I introduce to this word has a small moment of hesitation followed by a visceral "THIS IS SO TRUE THE WORD IS PERFECT" reaction.

People still feel powerless though, but at least, some awareness may lead do something eventually.

[maxglute → weikju]

Feels like en- is just there to keep things respectable and printable. I drop the pretense and use shiffitification in person.

[idontwantthis]

I have a new word: commode-ification.

The point we’re at with some products where every single choice is shit so they are all interchangeable with each other.

[huijzer]

I hope that the 2024 word of the year has a more can-do attitude. Awareness doesn’t automatically lead to problem solving. Problem solving does. Maybe the 2024 word can be something like nichization. In which more and more people and organisations solve a niche problem in a superb way. It would be a direct counter to enshittification because large organizations are usually not flexible enough to fix very specific problems.

[nunez]

This list is so cool. It's like an unexpected time capsule!

[xtiansimon → nunez]

Made me look. Some cool new words for me and some favorites.

Made me think of Military vocabulary and I found this top search result: http://www.military.com/join-armed-forces/military-terms-and...

If you’re still in the mood for word hash

[dustypotato]

Funny , if you know German "ent" is a prefix used to denote to remove something. Eh enthaaren, entfernen, entdecken. So entshittification is removing shit ?

[progfix → dustypotato]

"en" =/= "ent"

[Cilvic → progfix]

I'm a German speaker and even though I understand the difference, the word makes me struggle each time and I have to figure out whether en-shittification or de-shittification is meant.

[dustypotato → progfix]

Ok, I'm dumb. That actually makes me feel better

[Sjeiti → dustypotato]

Ah like Entwikkelung! But not like Enthousiasmus (derived from theo).

[thebruce87m → dustypotato]

Removing the “good shit” from something?

[croes → thebruce87m]

https://youtu.be/igh9iO5BxBo

[bobmaxup]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification