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Duolingo lays off 10% of contract workers, partly due to AI (www.techspot.com)
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[–] Olap@lemmy.world 55 points 10 months ago (1 children)

enshitification continues

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Q: Why do people add "en" in front? Isn't "shittification" just fine?

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 47 points 10 months ago

the original author coined it

en - shit - ify: [commence] + [ordure] + [make]

I guess because it's the start of a long and slow process, that holds the context of it not being as shit before. Whereas without the prefix it suggests a more sudden, decisive and completed act.

[–] Olap@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/en & https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ification#English both combine to make a word that means to add to something making it shitter

Shittification would be to make a shit, you could argue that 'en' means that you make something else shitter I think

English is weird https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification