Hard To Believe This Person Is Serious

[Fred Cisin]

>> Q: what does "FURBISH" mean?

On Fri, 26 Mar 2021, Guy N. via cctalk wrote:
> According to the OED: 1) Remove the rust from, burnish, polish up (a
> sword, armour, etc.); 2) Clean up, renovate, revive, give a new look to
> (something dirty, faded, or old).
> I think "give a new look to" is what some of these sellers have in mind;
> "renovate, revive" maybe not so much. But removing the rust from a hard
> disk might not be what buyers expect.

Yep.
Remove all of the unsightly "NFG" graffiti tagging.


So, there's not a lot of difference between FURBISH and RE-FURBISH.


"UNTESTED" used to mean that it hadn't been tried out.
Now, it means that the technician was unable to repair it.