[Ads-l] "Shitify"

[Nancy Friedman]

Here's Cory Doctorow with “disenshittified” and “Enshittocene”:

https://doctorow.medium.com/https-commons-wikimedia-org-wiki-file-hal9000-svg-2c39e01158eb

Patagonia calls it the Shitthropocene:

https://www.patagonia.com/stories/the-shitthropocene/video-150905.html


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On Wed, May 8, 2024, 8:01 PM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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).
> ---
>
> And it has "shitification"/"shittification" back to 2001.
>
> ---
> 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.
> ---
>
> --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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