#ish

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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So I’ve been seeing web-ads for a new initiative by the Jewish Federation of North America that ask “What’s your #ish?” By which they mean “What does it mean to you to be Jewish? And please tweet it” (thus the “#”). Which is a kind of cool and interesting question to ask people.

But that’s not what this thread is about. This thread is about my initial reaction to seeing the construction “#ish”.

Wouldn’t that be pronounced “hashish”? And how did the JFNA miss that? It gave me a chuckle, anyway, which is why this is in MPSIMS instead of one of the sober, serious forums like GQ or GD… :slight_smile:

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My first thought was it meant “poundish”

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I opened this thread thinking it was about hashish.

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My thought would be “octothorpish” – which gives me this Stan Lee-esque image of Spidey vs. a football player who can carry the ball in one ‘hand’ while blocking opponent players with two others, etc. :slight_smile:

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Could it be “sharpish”?

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I also thought this thread was about hashish.

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Fracture-ish, which make zero-ish sense.

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I nearly didn’t peek in. I thought it meant “number-ish,” as in mathematically inclined, which I am definitely not. Nor Jewish either.

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I thought numberish as well and thought this threat would be a rant about people who say “9ish”. I rarely have heard that symbol called the hash.

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All of my ish is #.

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Otherwise you are rather numberish. yourself.

Much better than being " Number. Ish." :wink:

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All your ish are belong to #.

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My kids have been saying “ish” lately to mean “sort of.” As in the following model dialogue:

Me: Do you have any homework?
Kid: Ish.

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I assumed the thread was about Twitter, and I was at least half right.

Or, you know, right-ish.

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I assumed it was about IRC, I guess I’m dating myself.