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Thread: "Borked" dosen't mean "Broken"!

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    "Borked" dosen't mean "Broken"!

    So many people use the word "Borked" and have no idea what it means.

    "Borked" means to be subject to unfair character attacks, or to be denied something based on unfair or untrue attacks unrelated to the topic at hand. The term is a reference to the 1987 appointment of Robert Bork to the supreme court, which was blocked in the Senate based on character attacks and politics rather than on qualifications or record.

    http://home.earthlink.net/~zkkatz/page71.html

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...&notFound=true

    For the record, i think it is a good thing that bork was borked. but SEQ has never been "borked". it is, however, currently broken.
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    Sorry about stepping up and playing Captain Obvious here, but English is not a dead language.

    Words change, and sometimes mean things entirely different than they meant just a few short years before. Especially considering b0rked is a slang term.

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    Hell, I thought someone was talkin bout ABBA . ))

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    I thought it was from the Swedish Chef...

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    Ah, thanks for explaination.
    Thought you mispelled it and means Borged!

    I will assimilate you all!!!

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    You know... when seq is hosed this board gets pretty damn funny. Swedish Chef.. I'm still laughing and it's only 4:15 in the morning.

    -Lane

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    Source: Jargon File

    borken adj.

    (also `borked') Common deliberate typo for `broken'.

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    "I will assimilate you all!!!"

    Sorry, there is no "I" in Borg.

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    excellent eye

    We will assimilate you

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    Exterminate! Exterminate!


    ...wait, wrong show

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    To SoE:

    Resistance is FUTILE!

    :P

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    yes this is an example of nerds, with nothing to do

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    Crap... all this time I thought it was Bjorked and was misspelled.


    Lord knows, if you've been Bjorked, you have been truely fucked.
    The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary.

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    Bjork

    if travel is searching
    and home has been found

    I'm not stopping

    I'm going hunting
    I'm the hunter
    I'll bring back the goods
    but I don't know when

    thought I could organise freedom
    how Scandinavian of me
    you sussed it out, didn't you?

    you could smell it
    so you left me on my own
    to complete the mission
    now I'm leaving it all behind

    I'm going hunting
    I'm the hunter .....
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    I had given Borked up to the l33t sp34k. Ya know, people deliberately mispelling words and using look-alike characters to make out like they're c00l?

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