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Not a German but Duden disagrees with you [0]: "etwas in der Absicht, es zu verbessern, schlechter machen". [0]: https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/verschlim
by Youden 29d ago
Not a German but Duden disagrees with you [0]: "etwas in der Absicht, es zu verbessern, schlechter machen".
[0]: https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/verschlimmbessern https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/verschlimmbessern
- 1718627440 28d agoBut you rarely only worsen it in every direction.
- b3orn 29d agoGerman here, this is the right definition, trying to improve something but ending up making it worse.
- jjtheblunt 29d agothat's not disagreeing at all (american partial german, partial pole)
- gpvos 29d agoIt is a different meaning from that in the parent comment by OroPla.
- spacechild1 29d agoYes, that's the correct definition.
- quink 28d agoI still agree with parent’s definition more because it also covers the ironic, sarcastic case, as well as the inherent ambiguity of the word ‘besser’. Plainly put, ‘better’ for who? If you just say it as a logical series of making it worse while making it better you miss that the intention of the ‘better’ is the first place wasn’t even the intention to make it better for the user.