Anupam Kapoor wrote:
Spundun Bhatt wrote : borken is broken.
What does bork mean on this mailing list? where does it come from?
whats its literal meaning?
There are many theories I have heard on that. One is that someone
misspelt "broke" as "bork", but without the "e" at the end makes that a
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| I think this is coincidental. My authoritive source on these matters
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Spundun Bhatt wrote :
borken is broken.
> What does bork mean on this mailing list?
> where does it come from?
> whats its literal meaning?
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> True, but (a) ESR is usually pretty good about tracing etymologies and
> (b) the "intentional typo" is a simpler explanation and common elsewhere
> (cf. "pr[o0]n&q
True, but (a) ESR is usually pretty good about tracing etymologies and
(b) the "intentional typo" is a simpler explanation and common elsewhere
(cf. "pr[o0]n", others that I can't remember off hand).
My bet is that the Swedish chef resemblance is a coincidence.
Well that was diverting. We now re
Doesn't mean that the mangling wasn't originally inspired by the Swedish
Chef. :-)
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> I think this is coincidental. My authoritive source on these matters is
> the Jargon File; main site appears to be unreachable right now (I get a
> redirect to EFF's home page, for some reason) but here from a
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> I would suspect it has some origins in the Swedish Chef as
> well (fu
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 02:36:12PM -0500, Ric Messier wrote:
> I would suspect it has some origins in the Swedish Chef as well (funny to
> mangle broken into borken because of bork bork bork).
I think this is coincidental. My authoritive source on these matters is
the Jargon File; main site appea
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On Wednesday 26 March 2003 20:17, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
> I think borken = broken, thus bork = broke or something like that...
It wouldn't accidently have anything to do with the Swedish Chef from the
muppets, would it?
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I would suspect it has some origins in the Swedish Chef as well (funny to
mangle broken into borken because of bork bork bork).
Ric
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The jargon file shows all:
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=borken
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borken adj.
(also `borked') Common deliberate typo for `broken'.
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On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:17:29PM +0200, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
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> I think borken = broken, thus bork = broke or something like that...
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It means messed up. Where it comes from - who knows.
Maybe an inversion of broke!
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What does bork mean on this mailing list?
where does it come from?
whats its literal meaning?
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I think borken = broken, thus bork = broke or something like that...
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Spundun Bhatt wrote:
> What does bork mean on this mailing list?
> where does it come from?
> whats its literal meaning?
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