Comment on Duolingo lays off 10% of contract workers, partly due to AI

Olap@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Q: Why do people add “en” in front? Isn’t “shittification” just fine?

  source

  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    the original author coined it

    en - shit - ify: [commence] + [ordure] + [make]

    I guess because it’s the start of a long and slow process, that holds the context of it not being as shit before. Whereas without the prefix it suggests a more sudden, decisive and completed act.

    source
  • Olap@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/en & en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ification#English both combine to make a word that means to add to something making it shitter

    Shittification would be to make a shit, you could argue that ‘en’ means that you make something else shitter I think

    English is weird en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

    source