enshitification continues
Q: Why do people add “en” in front? Isn’t “shittification” just fine?
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.
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
It really went to shit when they removed the forum which was one of the most useful parts of the whole app
Whoever owns all these companies that are so keen on replacing everything with AI better invest in defense robots because people are going to have a lot of time on their hand and very little money.
A lot of people don’t have much food on their table
But they got a lot of forks n’ knives
And they gotta cut somethin’- Dylan
If anyone has a good app to learn Korean I’d love a rec. at best duo just helps me with vocab.
Honestly I prefer Babbel over Duolingo. It requires a sub though
Grabbed a year on the Black Friday sale and, holy shit, it’s so much better. Actual explanations and lessons is way better than the pointless gamification/leaderboards.
It doesn’t look like they offer Korean. Shame.
Duolingo lays off 10% of contract workers, partly due to greedy executives.
Any recommendations for language learning that doesn’t involve Duolingo?
Lingodeer is pretty great. It has a similar free/premium model to Duo, but unlike Duo there is an option to buy premium perpetually rather than as a subscription (and it is on sale currently)
Assimil courses, fsi courses, language transfer, Clozemaster (app), Pimsleur.
Ficken die eule
Setzen, 6.
The quality of duolingo has gone down massively in the past few years as they have done lay-offs, they don’t even have anyone checking the feedback coming from users any-more.
the courses themselves are worse too, designed more to stretch out app usage rather than teach more. I used to recommend duolingo as a good starter on learning a language, but it’s just so bad now that I won’t. And it seems to be a direct result of layoffs.
I did the Latin course last year and was unpleasantly surprised by how low quality znd even low quantity it was. Guess I’ll try Babbel next.
babbel is much worse
#fuckingcapitalists
