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Michael Jinks wrote:
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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
| mirror:
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
stretch.
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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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 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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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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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
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] jargon question...
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
