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Sorry... I tried to fight that battle when it first became popular and just got snarked on and voted down. Like it or not, the tech community has decided that C
by krapp 3y ago
Sorry... I tried to fight that battle when it first became popular and just got snarked on and voted down. Like it or not, the tech community has decided that Cory Doctorow's poop joke is a precise term of art to be taken seriously in technical discussion. People will even gatekeep it, if you use it in the wrong context.
It's a very important and necessary word, apparently.
- colesantiago 3y agoI’m glad i’m not the only one that sees this. Often I read an article and that ‘word’ pops up and the article loses credibility, because of this ‘technobabble’ which is worse with purposefully laced vulgarity. It’s always used in tech circles because it’s ‘funny’ now but we know we cannot say this in a serious discussion in public or context and expecting the other side to take what you’re saying seriously. You are right to fight it and I believe if more people say this ‘word’ then it gives me the green light to coin words with ‘fuck’ in them and getting the public to say it without questioning me.
- thaumasiotes 3y ago> I believe if more people say this ‘word’ then it gives me the green light to coin words with ‘fuck’ in them and getting the public to say it without questioning me. That already happened. Look how lightly people take references to "TFA" on this very site.
- colesantiago 3y agoMy gripe is the 'word' is gaining traction and was 'word' of the year by the ADS which is my problem, TFA is confined to tech circles whereas this is gaining on the cusp of mainstream https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshittification/ https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshitt... I never did take the ADS seriously though, but it would be only about time that this may reach the Oxford English Dictionary. I guess it's time to coin a new word with a combination of 'fuck', 'shit', etc in it on a new blog and throw it and push it around and expect people to just say it on tv and radio stations.
- t-3 3y agoIt's been a problem for a long time. Just go through any CS textbook and try to count many stupid jokes from 50 years ago are now technical jargon. It's not just computer stuff either - jargon from any field is a usually result of workers using imprecise or joking language to refer to things with more proper names long enough that it becomes standard. Tech just has it worse because almost all the communication happens quickly and informally and spreads that much faster.
- stavros 3y agoI'm kind of sad to see this reaction, because to me the vulgar part isn't what's objectionable about it, but I can't stand the awkward madeupness of the word. "Shittification" would have been bad enough, but the "en-" just makes it cringe.
- layer8 3y agoI think that’s just you. The word formation made perfect sense to me the first time I read it.
- colesantiago 3y agoNot just him, it's cringe.
- RangerScience 3y agoWould you say… that people got pretty shitty at naming things? Edit: I kid, but, do you have a word you’d like used instead?
- krapp 3y agoI don't know if a specific term is even needed but I like "platform decay."
- Mistletoe 3y agoIs this about your username?
- krapp 3y agoNo, obviously it isn't about my username. Are you old enough to be using this forum?
- kortilla 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth