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<div>FUBAR sort of reminds me of a joke we had in the military \u201cI\u2019m standing as fast as I can, SIR!!! \u201c</div>
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<p>Thank you for posting. Prompted by your posting, I plugged this word into Google. </p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">The first search hit offered an etymology that I found very interesting. It said:</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">It's a combination of the words verschlimmern ("to make something worse") and verbessern ("to make something better").<br>
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<p>The second search hit said:</p>
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<p>In German, the word \u201cVerschlimmbessern\u201d means \u201cto make something worse while repairing it.\u201d In English, we call that \u201csoftware development.\u201d<br>
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Today I learned a new German word that seems so applicable to PatentCenter I had to share it: verschlimmbessern.
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I am advised that it means to take something bad and try to make it better, but in the process, you make it worse than before. We NEED a word like that in English - particularly for many recent PTO "improvements"!!<br>
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