Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Ish

-George Washington University, need-blind-ish.

-Cosmetic breast enhancement, feminist-ish.

5 comments:

Petey said...

To reluctantly be a pedant over your quite amusing post:

What GW did goes beyond "ish". They originally created a evilly clever plan to be "ish", but then quickly they abandoned that plan and just flat out lied for a long time...

Phoebe Maltz Bovy said...

Both ish-es were intended as understatements. The trouble with brevity is, intent may not come through.

Petey said...

"Both ish-es were intended as understatements. The trouble with brevity is, intent may not come through."

Meh. The brevity made the thing work quite nicely. It was full of pith. I was just being pedantic.

caryatis said...

Ew, the more I learn about GW the less respect I have.

Phoebe Maltz Bovy said...

Caryatis,

I know nothing else about it, other than that someone I really respect is a professor there. But that story is plenty unsettling.