Mastodawn

benteh Feb 11, 2023

Word of the day, a yiddish slang word:

farpotshket

broken, because someone tried to fix it

This word doesn't just describe something that is broken, but something that is broken specifically because someone else tried to fix it, making it worse. It is used most commonly today to describe software engineering projects.

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JohnMashey

@benteh
Good word. 40+ years ago in the old Bell System, every telephone trouble-report was collected in telco databases. One of the codes was ~man-made problem, as distinct from squirrel bites, gunshots, etc. Most commonly were cables in junction box that got messed up when somebody was fixing another one.