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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>bogotify</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="bogosity.html" title="bogosity"/><link rel="next" href="bogue-out.html" title="bogue out"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bogotify</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bogosity.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bogue-out.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bogotify"/><dt xmlns="" id="bogotify"><b>bogotify</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/boh·go´t@·fi:/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> To make or become bogus. A program that has been changed so many
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times as to become completely disorganized has become bogotified. If you
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tighten a nut too hard and strip the threads on the bolt, the bolt has
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become bogotified and you had better not use it any more. This coinage led
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to the notional <span class="firstterm">autobogotiphobia</span>
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defined as ‘the fear of becoming bogotified’; but is not clear
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that the latter has ever been ‘live’ jargon rather than a
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self-conscious joke in jargon about jargon. See also
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<a href="bogosity.html"><i class="glossterm">bogosity</i></a>, <a href="bogus.html"><i class="glossterm">bogus</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bogosity.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bogue-out.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bogosity </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bogue out</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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