Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦I maintain that everyone in IT needs to know this •one• Yiddish word and use it often.
Farpotshket: Broken, because someone tried to fix it.
Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)@ghostinthenet There's something similar in my native German "verschlimmbessert" (literally "imbadproved").
Fixstern@uliwitness @ghostinthenet I think the german "verbastelt" (worked on and destroyed/made worse in the process) is even more close. The entymology of this one would be interesting for sure :)
@dunkelstern @ghostinthenet @knirscher Yeah, I searched around for the etymology of the Yiddish word, but was unable to find anything beyond translations and calls to add it to English. I'd be really curious too what parts it is made of and what they mean individually.
And yeah, the "fa-" prefix sounds quite similar to the German "ver-" prefix, and we know the languages share a lot of heritage, so that wouldn't surprise me. But is it verbastelt or verpfuscht or something else? 🤷🏼♀️
Colin Watson@uliwitness @dunkelstern @ghostinthenet @knirscher I think https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D6%BC%D7%90%D6%B7%D7%98%D7%A9%D7%A7%D7%A2%D7%9F is probably the root, with the Germanic far-/ver- prefix.
Mattias Ljungström