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I love it when typos create new words that fit so well.
Any other good examples? Only one that immediately came to mind was "borken", and even that usually gets used as "borked"
Borked comes from Robert Bork, who was nominated to the US Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan. He was rejected by the Senate, with many of the opinion that he and Reagan made a mistake.
Therefore Borked means fucked up.
Bork also borked US agriculture as a federal judge. He's literally the reason that there has been so much consolidation because of his ruling that corporate consolidation is, by default, magically both good for customers and somehow doesn't violate anti-trust laws. To be clear, both are lies and he clearly knew that at the time of the ruling but, like all right-wing judges, loved money and imposing his right-wing values from the bench more than his constitutionally defined duties.
Huh, TIL - it just works so naturally as a typo that I assumed it started there.
That's the way it started for many of the tech people that I've known (typo).