alt Hacker NewsLike people using “bricked” to signal recoverable situations. “Oh the latest update bricked my phone and I had to factory-reset it, but it’s ok now”. Bricked used to mean it turned into something as useful as a brick, permanently.
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namrog84 • last Tuesday at 7:16 PM
I've also seen the term. You've been permanently banned for 12 hours.
Instead of temporarily suspended.
Whatever happened to the word suspended for temporary and ban for permanent and places say permanent with an expiration date.
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I'm not sure how common this is in other countries, but Americans would rather add another definition to the dictionary for the misuse before they'd ever tolerate being corrected or (god forbid) learning the real meaning of a word. I got dogpiled for saying this about "factoid" the other day here, but sometimes when people misuse words like "bricked" or "electrocuted", the ambiguity does actually make a difference, meaning you have to follow up with "actually bricked permanently?" or "did the shock kill him?", meaning that semantic information has been lost.