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ThrowawayR2yesterday at 7:41 PM1 replyview on HN

The sibling post's "disimprovement" sounds more natural and has parallel form with pre-existing broadly accepted English words like "disincentive" and "disinfect".


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eqvinoxtoday at 1:23 AM

Not sure if that's just me, but "disimprovement" sounds like *removing* an improvement that was previously there…