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Comment by ThrowawayR2

12 hours ago

The sibling post's "disimprovement" sounds more natural and has parallel form with pre-existing broadly accepted English words like "disincentive" and "disinfect".

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eqvinox  7 hours ago

Not sure if that's just me, but "disimprovement" sounds like *removing* an improvement that was previously there…

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