That's Nice or is it Marvellous, Brilliant, Kind, Comforting, Pretty ....?

Let's face it we would all be talking in medieveal speke if it was up to some luds.

We were not allowed to use it unless we used it correctly. It was the same with 'got'. Our Teachers would turn in their graves if we said "must of" as one hears so often!

Nice is an adjective used not to upset someone when they ask “what do you think of ...........”

I remember once using the nice word (as well as others) when giving one of my sons a personality boost. Wow, was he unimpressed and apparently it had an insipid, middle of the road and nothingness interpretation. Yes the avoidance had been taught to me at school but it seemed appropriate at the time. Mmmm... some y' lose!

Agree with Gretta. Sometimes nice is better for my blood pressure than alternatives used today; AWESOME, FANTASTIC, WONDERFUL, GREAT, AMAZING, MARVELOUS. Sometimes a calm nice is nice.

I was a translator in a previous life and for the English word nice I had over 10 choices in French. It just shows what an all encompassing and useful word it is.

An old rele of mine used "nice" instead of the "C" word.

"One of our close friends definition of nice is :-

N neurotic
I insecure
Cchaotic
Eemotional "

Grannygravy, this comes from excellent books by Louise Penny, whose hero is Gamache, a detective in Canada. NICE is used that way in a book by one of the characters, a poet called Ruth, who has a pet duck.

Love this thread! As a child I was taught so many ‘rules’ with regards to word usage and grammar - boy has that proved useful over my lifetime. I so hate some of the vocabulary used today in the incorrect context. If my granddaughters use OMG once more I think I’ll scream ?.

When we were told in Junior School to avoid the use of ‘nice’, naturally one girl write an essay using it almost every other word.

I was taught to choose a different word to nice too. Lots of 'nice' alternatives available.

Oh rufus2 you’re back, good.

My schools never said that I shouldn’t use the word ‘nice’ and to be honest I Hadn’t given it a thought until this thread popped up.

...And some people that are just nice to everyone.

;)

I've met some very nice people on Gransnet.

At school we were told to keep nice for food.

was taught, both at Primary and Secondary School , to eschew the use of the word Nice
Granny They would have had to teached me what "eschew" meant first!

It's better than the "f" word, which is used as a noun, adjective and verb.

It’s very bland, but it doesn’t bother me at all, unlike the ubiquitous use of ‘amazing’ about things that are nothing of the sort.

‘Splendid’ is one you hardly hear any more, though I do know someone of my age who still uses it.

I think there is a place for nice in our vocabulary. For me, it describes something or someone pleasant and unchallenging, nothing to write home about, but perfectly acceptable.

I was, like many others here, taught to replace ‘nice’ with a more descriptive adjective but the Americanism of ‘awesome’ makes my toes curl so I’ll stick to a nice cup of tea thank you very much!

I think nice is a cop out, it’s very vanilla, as in neither here nor there.

Lifes too short.

got, lot, and nice - OK in speech but not in the written word - that was drummed into me at primary school. A great way to encourage children to choose other words and build vocabulary.

It nice to get through a thread without any dogpiling.

Phloembundle- I know language will naturally evolve, but phrases that make no sense at all just annoy me. Like "can't be arsed" instead of "can't be bothered". What the hell does that mean?