CassidyAce
Senior Retro Guru
What is 'modish' supposed to mean in this context? 'mod' as in 'retromod'?So does ‘usedish’ mean the same as ‘modish’?
What is 'modish' supposed to mean in this context? 'mod' as in 'retromod'?So does ‘usedish’ mean the same as ‘modish’?
Predictive text modish is nosishWhat is 'modish' supposed to mean in this context? 'mod' as in 'retromod'?
In that case, the answer to the question of whether 'used-ish' is the same as 'NOS-ish' is 'No'. The suffix '-ish' is used as a qualifier to indicate that a characteristic is possessed to less than the full extent or that it might be a matter of opinion or that it's a marginal case... Here, the seller means 'similar-to-NOS' or 'almost-but-not-quite-NOS'. That does not mean that 'used-ish' and 'NOS-ish' should be used interchangeably any more than if I describe something as 'blue-ish' in colour that 'red-ish' would be equally accurate, or that 'cheap-ish' could be equally well described as 'expensive-ish.'Predictive text modish is nosish
In that case, the answer to the question of whether 'used-ish' is the same as 'NOS-ish' is 'No'. The suffix '-ish' is used as a qualifier to indicate that a characteristic is possessed to less than the full extent or that it might be a matter of opinion or that it's a marginal case... Here, the seller means 'similar-to-NOS' or 'almost-but-not-quite-NOS'. That does not mean that 'used-ish' and 'NOS-ish' should be used interchangeably any more than if I describe something as 'blue-ish' in colour that 'red-ish' would be equally accurate, or that 'cheap-ish' could be equally well described as 'expensive-ish.'
In that case, the answer to the question of whether 'used-ish' is the same as 'NOS-ish' is 'No'. The suffix '-ish' is used as a qualifier to indicate that a characteristic is possessed to less than the full extent or that it might be a matter of opinion or that it's a marginal case... Here, the seller means 'similar-to-NOS' or 'almost-but-not-quite-NOS'. That does not mean that 'used-ish' and 'NOS-ish' should be used interchangeably any more than if I describe something as 'blue-ish' in colour that 'red-ish' would be equally accurate, or that 'cheap-ish' could be equally well described as 'expensive-ish.'
"having the characteristics of" p?Utter p-ish.
That's just taking the pish!Utter pish.
You could argue that anything 'almost-but-not-quite-NOS' is 'used' but you'd have a tough time arguing that everything 'used' is 'almost-but-not-quite-NOS' because 'used' covers a wide spectrum, from the item in question to utterly knackered. 'Used' and 'almost-but-not-quite-NOS' are not identical, then, but you could say that the latter is a subset of the former. In this case, 'NOS-ish' accurately describes how little used the item is. If it was simply described as 'used' that would be less precise because it's been fitted to a show bike but not used on a bike that's been ridden, i.e., the usual sense of 'used' in this context. The seller explains the condition in the description; 'NOS-ish' is just used to be concise in the header. It seems fair enough to me.Would not 'almost-but-not-quite-NOS' be the same as used?