Linguistically I find debirdify fascinating: we've taken a noun that represents a brand name, added -ify to the end to turn it into an action, added de- to the beginning to make it the opposite, and we all automatically know what it means

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@afewbugs thanks for *demystifying* this. In the end *there is* some logic to English, who would have thought 😄

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