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		throwaway15392 on April 12, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nasty macOS flaw is bricking MacBooks: Don't insta... It’s not a real word, it’s more of a slang word It just changes the noun brick into a verb. So if a laptop has bricked, it means it’s like a brick now (useless)

eru on April 12, 2020 [–]

Slang words are real. (And so is "ain't", and most words you can make up on the spot.)

throwaway15392 on April 12, 2020 | [–]

Well duh. But that’s not the way I mean by real which everyone can understand, so you’re just being pedantic and annoying

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