I’ve found a new word !
I’ve been a fan of the word Bork for a long time now…in the context of the Swedish chef from the muppets crashing around singing ‘Bork, bork, bork’ at the top of his fuzzy little head while wildly brandishing a meat cleaver, to the use of the word to describe errant hardware, cocked-up software or release implementations that have gone awry.
However I’ve now found it’s successor…mborc. This stands for Matters Beyond Our Reasonable Control and while the etymology and usage isn’t exactly right I think it’s more a fitting usage of the language to describe when something has been ‘borked’.
I’m thinking i’ll use it something like ‘embarked’ but with the ‘o’ not the ‘a’…must rememebr to use in meeting from now on – see if it catched on. Heh heh.