ratcreature: Heh. RatCreature is amused. (heh.)
RatCreature ([personal profile] ratcreature) wrote 2008-08-01 03:52 am (UTC)

The noun is "Verschlimmbesserung" (singular) and "Verschlimmbesserungen" (plural). It sometimes comes in very useful that in German you can smoosh such opposites together, like in "Schadenfreude" I guess, so maybe this one will spread eventually to other languages as well. The phenomenon is certainly ubiquituous enough.

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