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Aifinkso in Germanee tehy has a word for theze new but nawt impruved fings: “Schlimmbesserung”– an improvement that makes things worse.
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Discussed in Howard Rheingold's They Have a Word for It (1988), where it is defined as "a so-called improvement that makes things worse."
October 11, 2011