Why is Lemmy obsessed with the word "enshittification"?
I see it referenced constantly here, not quite as much on Reddit. I know what it means, but just wondering why such the popularity over on this side of the fence?
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I'm just glad people stopped inserting the word "literally" everywhere. Literally language enshitification.
And that, everybody, is literally not the correct usage of "enshittification".
Jk, but for real though, it's not a direct synonym for "degraded" or "gets worse". It's more specific than that.
Plus, "literally" now literally has an alternative definition in the dictionary meaning "figuratively". So y'know, maybe get over the needless linguistic prescriptivism.
The problem is that when a word means one thing and it's anonym at the same time, it does make it hard to tell which one they're using. Usually it's easy to tell, but not always. It's not about prescriptivism, rather utility. I'm fine with language changing, but I hate losing useful words.
Agreed. Happy for language to change but what word do I use to tell people I'm not exaggerating?
genuinely is a pretty good one
I'm literally a prescriptivist though. But only during reverse office hours.
This is some sort of 4d chess. With multiverse. And time travel.