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Title: Word of the day
Post by: Pauws99 on October 20, 2017, 06:37
"Verschlimmbesserung"

An attempted improvement that makes things worse than they already were. This is a very common German expression which has no good translation in English. It is pronounced "Fair-shleam-besser-oonk" (schlimmer = worse, besser = better).

Just had to share this when someone told me about it....will save me a lot of words!
Title: Re: Word of the day
Post by: Mantis on October 20, 2017, 07:47
"Verschlimmbesserung"

An attempted improvement that makes things worse than they already were. This is a very common German expression which has no good translation in English. It is pronounced "Fair-shleam-besser-oonk" (schlimmer = worse, besser = better).

Just had to share this when someone told me about it....will save me a lot of words!

I'm actually giving a talk on continuous improvement today.  I think I will use this word on one of my topics about project charters (or lack thereof):)
Title: Re: Word of the day
Post by: increasingdifficulty on October 20, 2017, 08:11
"Verschlimmbesserung"

An attempted improvement that makes things worse than they already were. This is a very common German expression which has no good translation in English. It is pronounced "Fair-shleam-besser-oonk" (schlimmer = worse, besser = better).

Just had to share this when someone told me about it....will save me a lot of words!

Not "-oonk" - oong.  ;)
Title: Re: Word of the day
Post by: Chichikov on October 20, 2017, 08:29
"Verschlimmbesserung"

An attempted improvement that makes things worse than they already were. This is a very common German expression which has no good translation in English. It is pronounced "Fair-shleam-besser-oonk" (schlimmer = worse, besser = better).

Just had to share this when someone told me about it....will save me a lot of words!

Not "-oonk" - oong.  ;)

It depends how much beer you drank before…
Title: Re: Word of the day
Post by: sarah2 on October 21, 2017, 10:53
:)  I don't know how I've managed without this word till now!
I see so many uses.....
 :)
Title: Re: Word of the day
Post by: noodle on October 21, 2017, 17:25
And I thought “bird” was the word...