[Patentcenter] Off Topic - Kind of

[Carl Oppedahl]

One of my favorites is schadenfreude, which roughly means "to take 
pleasure in the suffering of someone else".

On 10/17/2024 7:32 AM, Suzannah K. Sundby via Patentcenter wrote:
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> I love German language… that they have words for specific truisms… :)
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> *Subject:* [Patentcenter] Off Topic - Kind of
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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"!!
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