• Dessa [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    I’m not sure it is for -ification suffix words, but it is for other forms. Wed -> Wedded, short e. Weed -> Weeded, long e.

    But I guess at the end of the day “Enshittify” just feels right to me, which is the only real rule of the english language

    • Orcocracy [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      It feels wrong to me! But I’m the one disagreeing with a book that will probably get rather wide distribution, do the full press circuit, and get put into spellchecking & autocorrect software, so what I feel doesn’t matter.

      • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        2 months ago

        Remember: English is 4 languages in a trench coat that hides in dark alleys where it mugs other languages, shaking them down for loose change and grammar.