[Patentcenter] Off Topic - Kind of

[Paul Keating]

Or “Tech Support”.

FUBAR sort of reminds me of a joke we had in the military “I’m standing as fast as I can, SIR!!! “

Paul Keating

On 17 Oct 2024, at 15:18, Carl Oppedahl via Patentcenter <patentcenter at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:



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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