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mikub on Sept 27, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing

There is already a german word for it, it's called "Verschlimbesserung". Which you could translate to "Improving but making it worse", sounds better in german so. :)

golem14 on Sept 27, 2023 [–]

Yeah, but that has no cussword component.

Verschlimmbesserung could be translated as imworsement maybe?

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