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[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 44 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Carcinisation is the phenomenon of non crabs to evolve crab like characteristics. It is not the process of non crabs becoming true crabs.

In this case the language is trending toward JSON syntax, but it doesn't have to actually be JSON for carcinisation to be an applicable analogy.