Comment by renehsz
10 hours ago
My understanding is that a Verschlimmbesserung stems from a genuine intent to improve something, even though it ultimately has the opposite effect.
10 hours ago
My understanding is that a Verschlimmbesserung stems from a genuine intent to improve something, even though it ultimately has the opposite effect.
I don't remember hearing or using it in this context. It's pretty rare that the goal was to make something worse and if the outcome is only bad, you can just call it bad, right? The word is only needed to communicate that there were good and bad outcomes.
A Verschlimmbesserung of the definition of Verschlimmbesserung.
Just calling it bad does not include the intent of improving it. Verschlimmbesserung does.