Alternatively "disimprovement".
replyVia https://dict.leo.org/forum/viewUnsolvedquery.php?idThread=49... and https://dict.leo.org/forum/viewUnsolvedquery.php?idThread=16...
Also misimprovement.
replyI don't think either of these 2 quite get the point across with the same "wavelengths" getting included.
replyAs a German, I might not have thought of that but would absolutely use it to translate Verschlimmbesserung. Does it sound "normal" enough to native English speakers?
replyThe sibling post's "disimprovement" sounds more natural and has parallel form with pre-existing broadly accepted English words like "disincentive" and "disinfect".
replyNot sure if that's just me, but "disimprovement" sounds like *removing* an improvement that was previously there…
replyIt's definitely a normal-sounding, memorable word for us native English speakers.
replyMeanwhile I won't be able to remember that German word longer than it takes me to close this tab. Vershumthingsomething.
It's totally plausible portmanteau. I get the feeling thought that it sounds more marked in English than in German where these kind of mashups are formed more freely.
replyThumbs up, let's settle on that translation
replyI'm Dutch, sounds pretty good to me
replyI prefer “misprovement”, as in “misfeature”.
replyWe've misunderestimated you.
replyIsn't the English word more or less "regression"? If you want to coin a new word, how about updowngrade?
reply"updowngrade", funnily enough, I would understand as having the (IMO misunderstood/wrong) meaning you're trying to give to "Verschlimmbesserung" in your post here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49483585 (making some parts better and some other parts worse.)
replyThat's not what "worseprovement" conveys to me, you can worseprove a single part, intending to make it better, making that same thing actually worse by the very same change.
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