Rhyme Repartee
Tim BrayHmm, writing a thing and, without thinking about it, used the verb “enslopify”. I can’t be the first. I think it’ll catch on.
Chris Swan@timbray we’re all living in the slopocene
cratermoon@timbray I’ve written ensloppenator to describe these plausible synthetic text extruders
@timbray ensloppifier works, too.
Johanna, CanCon variety@timbray Indeed.
Anticipating that wandering shop has a call for art submissions getting assembled, we wanted to be a little lighthearted about a strictly human made submission but recognize that there's a lot of good use of digital tools. I came up with "no pixelslop flingers".
Language evolves through its moments of need. 🤣
Lyubomir Ganev 
@timbray I also saw the word "slopaganda" today.
sayrer
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Flaming Cheeto@timbray it's a perfectly cromulent word
GlitzersachenShouldn't this be written "ensloppify"? Or does "slop" not have a relationship to "sloppy"?
@glitzersachen You're probably right but it's probably too late.
mirabilos@glitzersachen @timbray AE/BE difference, like travelling
@mirabilos @glitzersachen And "traveling" is fine.
@timbray @glitzersachen it’s american. So it’s fine for AE but not BE.
I mostly had the reverse problem, lintian’s spell checker for Debian packages flagging the use with the gemination.
Michel Patrice
Brad 
Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷@timbray Yep. It's there with enslopifying, and enslopification.😊
reep@timbray Question from non-native english speaker 🙋♂️: Why with both "en-" and "-fy"? Wouldn't "slopify" or "enslop" describe the process of diluting content with AI BS enough? Does it add hidden meaning?
@reep Haha you might be right. Maybe it's too late? Maybe I should run a poll?
(Obviously I'm influenced by Cory Doctorow's “enshittification”)
bovaz@timbray My issue with the word "slop" in this is that its translation in my language isn't immediate, because the closest (sbobba or brodaglia) aren't words we use much.
Meanwhile, google is wrong (translation online used to work, back in the good old days...):
Meanwhile, google is wrong (translation online used to work, back in the good old days...):
@bovaz I'm guessing that Italian is very rich in food words? If so, is there something suggesting that a dish is liquid and tasteless?
Michael Newton@[email protected] @[email protected] There's a place in Italy called Fonteblanda which caught my eye as the name can literally be translated as 'the bland spring'. It's not the only or even the most natural translation, but I love the head canon that the person who named it did so accidentally by declaring how tasteless the local spring was.
Anyway... I wouldn't use the term in this context both because it is actually a real place, and because spring water doesn't have the right negative connotations for translation
Tim Bray (@[email protected])
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randomd0Od@timbray ...and today I learned a new word or two
thenopnope@timbray My new favorite word.
@timbray oldest use of this I can find in my GtS DB is from last December: https://mastodon.nz/@mwt/115725149176489671 by @mwt