What does nice mean to you?
What does nice mean to you?
I use the American definition.
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Nice is a cold diet coke on a warm summer day.
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I hate the expression "she's a nice girl".
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Nice means you cant say anything joking or otherwise. It means CENSORSHIP!
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What does nice mean to you?
SnoozeControl wrote: I was recently told that a British and American dictionary would have different meanings for the same word.
The American meaning of nice would refer to someone that's pleasant, thoughtful, kind and polite.
However, nice in England doesn't mean likeable. Niceness is a bad thing to have, not a good thing.
Niceness = "Luxury, indulgence; fine or luxurious living; choiceness of food; daintiness, effeminacy."
Niceness = "Fastidiousness; squeamishness; (excessive) sensitivity."
Any thoughts?
English Definition of NICE from the Oxford Dictionary:
Agreeable, Kind, Friendly, Considerate, fine, Fastidious.
Niceness is NOT a bad thing to have in the UK and I don't know where you get that idea from Snooze.
The American meaning of nice would refer to someone that's pleasant, thoughtful, kind and polite.
However, nice in England doesn't mean likeable. Niceness is a bad thing to have, not a good thing.
Niceness = "Luxury, indulgence; fine or luxurious living; choiceness of food; daintiness, effeminacy."
Niceness = "Fastidiousness; squeamishness; (excessive) sensitivity."
Any thoughts?
English Definition of NICE from the Oxford Dictionary:
Agreeable, Kind, Friendly, Considerate, fine, Fastidious.
Niceness is NOT a bad thing to have in the UK and I don't know where you get that idea from Snooze.
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Bez wrote: English Definition of NICE from the Oxford Dictionary:
Agreeable, Kind, Friendly, Considerate, fine, Fastidious.
Niceness is NOT a bad thing to have in the UK and I don't know where you get that idea from Snooze.
Chambers Dictionary gives a similar definition.
I think the only problem we have with the word "nice" in the U.K. is that some of us were taught at school, in English lessons, to use a synonym because "nice" was so commonly and frequently used. This didn't change its meaning but meant that we thought twice about using it and looked for alternatives.
Agreeable, Kind, Friendly, Considerate, fine, Fastidious.
Niceness is NOT a bad thing to have in the UK and I don't know where you get that idea from Snooze.
Chambers Dictionary gives a similar definition.
I think the only problem we have with the word "nice" in the U.K. is that some of us were taught at school, in English lessons, to use a synonym because "nice" was so commonly and frequently used. This didn't change its meaning but meant that we thought twice about using it and looked for alternatives.
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What does nice mean to you?
SnoozeControl wrote: I was recently told that a British and American dictionary would have different meanings for the same word.
The American meaning of nice would refer to someone that's pleasant, thoughtful, kind and polite.
However, nice in England doesn't mean likeable. Niceness is a bad thing to have, not a good thing.
Niceness = "Luxury, indulgence; fine or luxurious living; choiceness of food; daintiness, effeminacy."
Niceness = "Fastidiousness; squeamishness; (excessive) sensitivity."
Any thoughts? Well whoever told you that was'nt "nice" and i find this post insulting.
The American meaning of nice would refer to someone that's pleasant, thoughtful, kind and polite.
However, nice in England doesn't mean likeable. Niceness is a bad thing to have, not a good thing.
Niceness = "Luxury, indulgence; fine or luxurious living; choiceness of food; daintiness, effeminacy."
Niceness = "Fastidiousness; squeamishness; (excessive) sensitivity."
Any thoughts? Well whoever told you that was'nt "nice" and i find this post insulting.
What does nice mean to you?
Nice, in regards to BR = I haven't ripped your face from your skull yet. That's what nice means to me.
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Nice? A place on the Cote d'Azure.
What does nice mean to you?
Nice to me is the opposite of mean... The universal definition of mean is:
A method used to attain an end.
Uncharitable and or malicious
Small minded
Inferior in quality, or character.
A method used to attain an end.
Uncharitable and or malicious
Small minded
Inferior in quality, or character.
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What does nice mean to you?
I offer this, the absolutely definitive work on the use of the English language and a book which has been my constant and faithful bedside companion these many years. The King’s English, 2nd edition, 1908, by H.W. Fowler (1858–1933). Chapter I. Vocabulary - SLANG.
Call me old-fashioned, but this is the sole arbiter of whether a word reasonably can be used in a given sense or not.
To the ordinary man, of average intelligence and middle-class position, slang comes from every direction, from above, from below, and from all sides, as well as from the centre. What comes from some directions he will know for slang, what comes from others he may not. He may be expected to recognize words from below. Some of these are shortenings, by the lower classes, of words whose full form conveys no clear meaning, and is therefore useless, to them. An antiquated example is mob, for mobile vulgus. That was once slang, and is now good English. A modern one is bike, which will very likely be good English also in time. But though its brevity is a strong recommendation, and its uncouthness probably no more than subjective and transitory, it is as yet slang. Such words should not be used in print till they have become so familiar that there is not the slightest temptation to dress them up in quotation marks. Though they are the most easily detected, they are also the best slang; when the time comes, they take their place in the language as words that will last, and not, like many of the more highly descended words, die away uselessly after a brief popularity.
Another set of words that may be said to come from below, since it owes its existence to the vast number of people who are incapable of appreciating fine shades of meaning, is exemplified by nice, awful, blooming. Words of this class fortunately never make their way, in their slang senses, into literature (except, of course, dialogue). The abuse of nice has gone on at any rate for over a century; the curious reader may find an interesting page upon it in the fourteenth chapter of Northanger Abbey (1803). But even now we do not talk in books of a nice day, only of a nice distinction. On the other hand, the slang use makes us shy in different degrees of writing the words in their legitimate sense: a nice distinction we write almost without qualms; an awful storm we think twice about; and as to a blooming girl, we hardly venture it nowadays. The most recent sufferer of this sort is perhaps chronic. It has been adopted by the masses, as far apart at least as in Yorkshire and in London, for a mere intensive, in the sense of remarkable. The next step is for it to be taken up in parody by people who know better; after which it may be expected to succeed awful.
I do hope this helps.
Call me old-fashioned, but this is the sole arbiter of whether a word reasonably can be used in a given sense or not.
To the ordinary man, of average intelligence and middle-class position, slang comes from every direction, from above, from below, and from all sides, as well as from the centre. What comes from some directions he will know for slang, what comes from others he may not. He may be expected to recognize words from below. Some of these are shortenings, by the lower classes, of words whose full form conveys no clear meaning, and is therefore useless, to them. An antiquated example is mob, for mobile vulgus. That was once slang, and is now good English. A modern one is bike, which will very likely be good English also in time. But though its brevity is a strong recommendation, and its uncouthness probably no more than subjective and transitory, it is as yet slang. Such words should not be used in print till they have become so familiar that there is not the slightest temptation to dress them up in quotation marks. Though they are the most easily detected, they are also the best slang; when the time comes, they take their place in the language as words that will last, and not, like many of the more highly descended words, die away uselessly after a brief popularity.
Another set of words that may be said to come from below, since it owes its existence to the vast number of people who are incapable of appreciating fine shades of meaning, is exemplified by nice, awful, blooming. Words of this class fortunately never make their way, in their slang senses, into literature (except, of course, dialogue). The abuse of nice has gone on at any rate for over a century; the curious reader may find an interesting page upon it in the fourteenth chapter of Northanger Abbey (1803). But even now we do not talk in books of a nice day, only of a nice distinction. On the other hand, the slang use makes us shy in different degrees of writing the words in their legitimate sense: a nice distinction we write almost without qualms; an awful storm we think twice about; and as to a blooming girl, we hardly venture it nowadays. The most recent sufferer of this sort is perhaps chronic. It has been adopted by the masses, as far apart at least as in Yorkshire and in London, for a mere intensive, in the sense of remarkable. The next step is for it to be taken up in parody by people who know better; after which it may be expected to succeed awful.
I do hope this helps.
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What does nice mean to you?
Pedantic tendencies? The reference to Northanger Abbey agrees with you, Pinky, and rather rebounds on me, I fear...
"do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?"
"The nicest--by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding."
"Henry," said Miss Tilney, "you are very impertinent. Miss Morland, he is treating you exactly as he does his sister. He is forever finding fault with me, for some incorrectness of language, and now he is taking the same liberty with you. The word 'nicest,' as you used it, did not suit him; and you had better change it as soon as you can, or we shall be overpowered with Johnson and Blair all the rest of the way."
"I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call it so?"
"Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement--people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice. But now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word."
"While, in fact," cried his sister, "it ought only to be applied to you, without any commendation at all. You are more nice than wise. Come, Miss Morland, let us leave him to meditate over our faults in the utmost propriety of diction, while we praise Udolpho in whatever terms we like best. It is a most interesting work. You are fond of that kind of reading?"
"do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?"
"The nicest--by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding."
"Henry," said Miss Tilney, "you are very impertinent. Miss Morland, he is treating you exactly as he does his sister. He is forever finding fault with me, for some incorrectness of language, and now he is taking the same liberty with you. The word 'nicest,' as you used it, did not suit him; and you had better change it as soon as you can, or we shall be overpowered with Johnson and Blair all the rest of the way."
"I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call it so?"
"Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement--people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice. But now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word."
"While, in fact," cried his sister, "it ought only to be applied to you, without any commendation at all. You are more nice than wise. Come, Miss Morland, let us leave him to meditate over our faults in the utmost propriety of diction, while we praise Udolpho in whatever terms we like best. It is a most interesting work. You are fond of that kind of reading?"
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When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
What does nice mean to you?
Diuretic wrote: I must be up myself - I'm part of the hoi polloi (only cos it sounds posh 
)Is that allowed? "the the many"? Might one not rather say "I'm part of hoi polloi"? I fear one ought.
)Is that allowed? "the the many"? Might one not rather say "I'm part of hoi polloi"? I fear one ought.Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left. ... Hold no regard for unsupported opinion.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
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Pinky wrote:
In real life, my gob engages before my brain can stop it half the time, lol!
That is me to the T ...gob off think later .
Nice to me mean's pleasant,friendly,kind, there's nothing wrong with being nice but sometime's people mistake nice for kinda bland and boring .:-6
In real life, my gob engages before my brain can stop it half the time, lol!
That is me to the T ...gob off think later .
Nice to me mean's pleasant,friendly,kind, there's nothing wrong with being nice but sometime's people mistake nice for kinda bland and boring .:-6
Can go from 0 - to bitch in 3.0 seconds .
Smile people :yh_bigsmi
yep, this bitch bites back .
Smile people :yh_bigsmi
yep, this bitch bites back .
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mrsK wrote: I guess that's me bland & boring....whatever I can live with it:-6 :-6
MRS K i said i think being labled nice is being friendly and pleasent and SOME people mistake it for bland and boring
MRS K i said i think being labled nice is being friendly and pleasent and SOME people mistake it for bland and boring
Can go from 0 - to bitch in 3.0 seconds .
Smile people :yh_bigsmi
yep, this bitch bites back .
Smile people :yh_bigsmi
yep, this bitch bites back .
What does nice mean to you?
SnoozeControl wrote: I actually keep a dictionary in the bathroom for reading... I figure I might as well stock up on words while I'm passing digested food.I have this dreadful sense that the dictionary of which you speak only begins now half-way through "f" and becomes slightly thinner with each passing week.
I'm not being nice, am I.
I'm not being nice, am I.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left. ... Hold no regard for unsupported opinion.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
What does nice mean to you?
SnoozeControl wrote: Did that make sense?:-2Perfectly. I wouldn't dream of using anything but an UFO in the unlikely event that an UFO were being discussed.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left. ... Hold no regard for unsupported opinion.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
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CORN COB'S:eek: care to explain.
Can go from 0 - to bitch in 3.0 seconds .
Smile people :yh_bigsmi
yep, this bitch bites back .
Smile people :yh_bigsmi
yep, this bitch bites back .
What does nice mean to you?
pantsonfire321@aol.com wrote: CORN COB'S:eek: care to explain.A more environmentally friendly concept never existed. I'm wildly impressed, myself.
This thread should have had a poll attached.
This thread should have had a poll attached.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left. ... Hold no regard for unsupported opinion.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
What does nice mean to you?
SnoozeControl wrote: Bog paper? I can't remember the term you used. ;)Those days are so long in our uncouth pre-sophisticated past. Current English etiquette is the bidet, the hair drier and the powder puff, in that order.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left. ... Hold no regard for unsupported opinion.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
What does nice mean to you?
mrsK wrote: Bit of a" rasp" there SpotMe, MrsK? I'm an innocent bystander in all this.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left. ... Hold no regard for unsupported opinion.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
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What does nice mean to you?
Did somebody say bog roll
Can go from 0 - to bitch in 3.0 seconds .
Smile people :yh_bigsmi
yep, this bitch bites back .
Smile people :yh_bigsmi
yep, this bitch bites back .
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What does nice mean to you?
Nice, nice.
This is a nice way to start the day. :-6
This is a nice way to start the day. :-6