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

I've met some very nice people on Gransnet.

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

;)

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.

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

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.

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 ?.

"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.

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

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.

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 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!

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

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!

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

Same here, always told not to use that word and to think of a better one. can't actually say I always remember.

Ellianne, I read that the word nice originated from a French word meaning foolish or ignorant.

Granny23 Same as you. Still cringe when I hear it being used.

If you can't be nice, you probably don't use "nice"

I remember being told not to use 'nice' too often, but I don't remember there being a ban on 'got'. What is wrong with 'got'?

'He has got a red hat' sounds ok to me. You could say 'owns', but I don't understand why that would be better English.

'They have got to go to the Post Office'. Ok, you could miss out 'got to' here, and use 'they have to go . . .'.

'They got into trouble for parking in the wrong place'. Can't see a problem with that one.

So is it 'got to' in the sense of 'must' that is frowned upon? I am intrigued .

Yehbutnobut
Such as myself who 'cringe' on hearing the word 'like' used as in ''I was 'like' at home /I was 'like' talking to'

Banning words now Mmmmmkay.

Growing up in Scotland we were taught never to use the verb "to get"" in any of its forms if we could find a synonym."What did you get for Christmas? was automatically corrected to "What were you given for Christmas?"

It annoys me when people use "to get" all the time, but I become even more annoyed when people say, "Can I " instead of "May I " or" under the circumstances! instead of "in the circumstances"

'Got' - our grammar teacher at school use to yell find the right verb'

it has it's place, not everything is amazing or lovely or tasty or enjoyable or wonderful. It can be quite nuanced [?] and is often a shorthand for something else, and no reason why you can't expand it a bit. It can just be neutral too, eg it is nice to be home and to be able to relax in front of a warm fire versus it's wonderful to be home and to be able to relax etc, a more neutral word might be good, but maybe the reason someone is home is not good....nice is in modern usage fairly neutral

Well I wouldn’t worry about what a teacher said, lol I like the word nice, there’s far worse words out there