What's an obsolete or incredibly obscure word you think people should know?

Overmorrow refers to the day after tomorrow and I feel like it comes in quite handy for example.

You're viewing a single thread.

304 comments

- I actually dislike that term a lot.
  It's like spunkgargleweewee. It seems immature and makes me feel more dismissive towards the argument. Maybe that also has to do with it being a catch all term and people seem less willing to give specific examples of how things are declining in quality.
  
  spunkgargleweewee
  You're claiming that is a term people use?
  
  Skibidi Ohio rizz bro.
  
  Omg no
  
  C'mon. They need to invent words for the clique-signalling .
  It's very fetch.
  
  Stop trying to make fetch happen
  
  Fetch never took off though.
  
  Straight fax no printer no cap
  
  You better be standin on bidness
  
  On god sigma gyatt
  
  Ok that last half of that comment I feel like you just randomly typed characters until you got something that looked like words.
  
  I believe the term originated with Yahtzee during the military and tactical shooter crazy in the 2010s. It referred to games that paraded players through various spectacles and rooms full of chest high walls, until enough time had passed to call it a campaign.
  
  Not commonly but every so often YouTubers I watch will start using it and it sticks for a prolonged period of time.
  It was just the first thing that came to mind. I imagine there are other equally silly internet words out there.
  
  spunkgargleweewee
  Ah, an individual of culture.
- Wait did you just coin that? That's fucking brilliant /s
  Edit: apparently I needed a /s because Lemmy doesn't use this term constantly or anything?
  
  Because there was no /s - no they didn't, it's been around for a little while now. It basically means products or services slowly getting worse rather than better - such as adding ads, adding useless or broken ai to everything, switching to a subscription without adding any actual value. This is almost always done in the interest of maximizing profit as much as possible, at the expense of the users (monetarily and experience wise). Basically, see any major company decisions in the last several years, especially at companies with very large audiences (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Airbnb, Facebook, etc)
  
  Since we're talking about it, and I really like the guy's work, I figured I should say who coined it! Author, Cory Doctorow! He has a blog where he (among all the other stuff he writes about) defined the word, and wrote several articles about it.
  pluralistic.net
  
  lol I didn't think I needed the /s because it was dripping with sarcasm.
  
  The issue with pretending to be stupid on the internet to make a point is that there are so many people doing the same thing with no point in mind.
  
  Sarcasm isn't "pretending to be stupid" imo
  
  This particular instance was certainly pretending to be ill-informed, so
  
  Well ignorance isn't stupidity, but also it was just SO obvious. Enshittification is one of the most used new words I've ever seen.
  
  I think you were pretty obvious. Someone actually curious would have asked what it meant.
  
  It was coined by Cory Doctorow.
  
  Cory Doctorow coined it: https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
  Writer Cory Doctorow coined the neologism "enshittification" in November 2022, though he was not the first to describe and label the concept.[1][2] The American Dialect Society selected it as its 2023 Word of the Year.

304 comments