Very Important Words the Tech Industry Ruined:- Friend- Like- Engagement - Smart- Connect- Contact- Intelligence- Search- Insights- Data- Chat- Mention- Reaction- Stories- Tweet- Viral

[haraldki@nrw.social]

@cyberlyra

And I thougt calling any odd person you follow on the net Freund in German was a stupid translation. I didn't know it is as annoying for native speakers too.

BTW: experience

When an app's user experience was improved, everyone these days expects the worst.

[zjb@mastodon.social]

哈哈，看到这个列表真的笑了。尤其是"friend"和"like"，现在听到这两个词我第一反应都是Facebook按钮而不是本意了。

[nini@oldbytes.space]

@cyberlyra

• Grok
• Code
• Generative
• Trust
• Slop
• Content

[fbulow@mastodon.social]

@cyberlyra For no reason at all, I recommend one of my favorite books:

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55338982-cultish

Big tech uses many cultish retention tactics too.

[p__x@mastodon.social]

@cyberlyra

they ruined one more thing — the em dash.

[krypt3ia@infosec.exchange]

@cyberlyra Reclaim them.

[patrascan@ohai.social]

@znull @cyberlyra znull, you make a great point! Language is organic, evolving and changing over time to respond to users' inclinations. There's a huge segment of us users (actual speakers--not techs, not marketers) who have a say in the evolution of these words

[sabineemden@social.tchncs.de]

@HaraldKi @cyberlyra

For weird translations of these words in German, “hat geliket“ is at the top of my list.

For those that don’t speak German:
That’s “has liked” but with German grammar.

[yunusd@mastodon.social]

@cyberlyra Each one is important enough, but I have to say going from Tweet to X defines the future, like all other changed words it stands for representing all

Less meaningful.

[rysultset@mastodon.social]

@harib_murshidi This got me thinking, how about bitpals? Or bytepals?

[fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net]

@cyberlyra
- crypto
- creator
- attention

[clickhere@mastodon.ie]

@cyberlyra "Reel"

[edgeofeurope@mastodon.social]

@cyberlyra "Musk"

[cadellin@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@cyberlyra not tech as such but "trump" has also been ruined as a verb.

[jdlbt@techhub.social]

@cyberlyra and they also ruined the emoji by associating it with AI slop.

[jeffreypriebe@mstdn.ca]

@cyberlyra Authentic