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Comment by WesolyKubeczek

10 hours ago

Would there be a semantic difference between Verschlimmbesserung and Verbesserschlimmung?

無 (the question cannot be answered because it relies on unmet prerequisites)

"Verbesserschlimmung" isn't a word in active use & depending on how it (theoretically) were to enter use, its meaning might vary. It could enter usage with identical meaning, or it could mean the opposite: a change intended to worsen things that made them better. It's a bit like "inflammable".

(Also: this is why I pointed out it's not formed according to the agglutination rules that apply for concatenated nouns in German. For those, the meaning can be logically derived. This is a portmanteau, those don't quite follow rigid rules.)