[Patentcenter] Off Topic - Kind of

[Carl Oppedahl]

Thank you for posting.  Prompted by your posting, I plugged this word 
into Google.

The first search hit offered an etymology that I found very 
interesting.  It said:

    It's a combination of the words verschlimmern ("to make something
    worse") and verbessern ("to make something better").

The second search hit said:

    In German, the word “Verschlimmbessern” means “to make something
    worse while repairing it.” In English, we call that “software
    development.”


On 10/17/2024 6:55 AM, Richard Straussman via Patentcenter wrote:
> Today I learned a new German word that seems so applicable to 
> PatentCenter I had to share it:  verschlimmbessern.
>
> 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"!!
>
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