[Ads-l] "Shitify"

[Ben Zimmer]

As Barry Popik pointed out when "enshittification" was named ADS WOTY,
there were various predecessors including "shitification" and
"shittification."

https://twitter.com/barrypopik/status/1743544050236436774

Wiktionary has an entry for "shittify" with citations going back to 1994.

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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shittify
1994 February, Maximum Rocknroll, number 129, Berkeley, C.A.: Maximum
Rocknroll, page 117:
The BACAT (Bay Area Center for Art and Technology) Collective, who put this
out, gain an added dimension with their invitations to reader input and
focus on the global networks and manipulations behind the shittifying of
proletarian lifestyle (written by people who've actually left California
and gone somewhere besides New York).
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And it has "shitification"/"shittification" back to 2001.

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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shittification
2001 July 11, PMG, “pro/blues junior”, in alt.guitar.amps‎ (Usenet):
I don't use reverb, I'd rather hear my guitar & amp ringing than a spring
reverb or a di-di-di-digital shitification of my guitar.
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--bgz


On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 8:49 PM Nancy Friedman <wordworking at gmail.com> wrote:

> We explored “enshittification" last year in the Strong Language blog.
> https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2023/02/01/enshittification/
>
> As I'm sure you know, it was the ADS word of the year.
>
> On Wed, May 8, 2024, 5:41 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> > My brother has asked me what was the first use of "shitify."  Can anyone
> > point me to research on this question ?
> >
> >
>

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