“Lovely”

Rekarie

Lovely thread ✨️

Nice one!

🎶 Isn’t this a lovely day,
To be caught in the r-a-i-n 🎶 ? No? Oh well

"Lilypops", same here.....I thought I was the only one but now I realise I am not - they say it to everyone. A rude awakening....ha,ha,ha.

This thread is Ace, brill cool just cosmic😎👌🏻

MissAdventure

What would you use instead?

brilliant, great, wonderful, amazing, enjoyable, fantastic, incredible the world is your oyster, there are load to pick from, lovely is the best though. It is not too OTT yet masses better than nice which is not nice.

Everyone I speak to says aww bless

Apart from the word loveky, my dear mum also hated the word Bless, which she deemed was used far too often by her contemporaries

Lovely not lovekey

I take it you don’t watch Loraine Kelly she is the most annoyingly guilty person of this everything and everyone is lovely I can’t stand to watch her

I don’t mind ‘lovely’ as a verb (probably use it too often myself) but I’ve got mixed feelings about it being used as an endearment (“thank you, Lovely”) although Darling and Sweetheart aren’t any better. The term I hate is ‘amazing’ when used for something very prosaic such as offering the correct card in a store or giving your own name or birthdate or address or something over the phone to customer service. I always feel slightly miffed - because it comes across as the other person having stunningly low expectations of what I might be capable of… All they needed to say was ‘thanks’…

How do you “lovely “??

Yes, at school we were told not to use ‘nice’ all the time,

To me, ‘lovely’ meant better than ‘nice’, IYKWIM.

‘A nice meal’ wasn’t as good as ‘a lovely meal’.

If you said Mary was ‘nice’, but Jane was ‘lovely’, it meant you liked Jane better.

vocabulary weak.

My favourite uncle from Ireland used to say “ he /she is the best in the world”. I thought that was just LOVELY!

How about 'dear', as in 'dd', 'dsil' and so on?
Is that imaginative?

Hate the use of "not a problem" in restaurants. "Sort of" and "you know" irritate me far more than "lovely" and "nice". Our vocabulary is definitely shrinking. Probably because of texting and the internet.

I can't bear it when someone who is providing a service (waiter, barman, shop assistant, etc) says "No problem". Of course it isn't a problem, it's the person's job.

Round here, the equivalent term to ducks, pet, hen, my loverrrrrrrr, etc, is indeed "lovely". As in, "Hello, lovely", "Ta, lovely", etc. It really grates on me to hear an adjective/adverb used as a noun. However, I smile through gritted teeth, as I know they're just being pleasantly friendly. Seems to be a female only thing, I've never heard a chap say it.

Well if we’re not allowed to say lovely anymore, can we use the word “nice” now? Nice was considered infra dig in the past.

Fosha

I don’t mind ‘lovely’ as a verb (probably use it too often myself) but I’ve got mixed feelings about it being used as an endearment (“thank you, Lovely”) although Darling and Sweetheart aren’t any better. The term I hate is ‘amazing’ when used for something very prosaic such as offering the correct card in a store or giving your own name or birthdate or address or something over the phone to customer service. I always feel slightly miffed - because it comes across as the other person having stunningly low expectations of what I might be capable of… All they needed to say was ‘thanks’…

I think maybe it's irritating because it devalues a useful word.

When I lived in Norway, I went out to empty the rubbish one night and, quite unexpectedly, saw the Northern Lights - rushed back indoors to tell my OH, and we both stood in the garden watching what really was "amazing" - to me anyway, because I'd never seen the spectacle previously. I don't think I've ever used the word since!

The worst violation of a word is when "legend" is used to describe a person who's done something that the author approves of but is nothing out of the ordinary. Example, an ex-boss married a woman considerably younger than himself - he was declared a "legend" by most of the men present at the announcement.

netflixfan

Well if we’re not allowed to say lovely anymore, can we use the word “nice” now? Nice was considered infra dig in the past.

I use nice. I like it and sometimes say so nice.

Awesome and cool . Straight from antipodes. Ah and legend is coming fast

The one I can't cope with is ''it's a pretty horrible thing'' '' I had a pretty nice cup of tea'' etc. I can never understand why ''pretty'' is put in front of everything! I use quite ... ''it was quite unusual'' and so on.

And brackets! Wh(y) do (we) have to (put) (b)rackets in every(t)hing too? When readying a new story or in books etc. it just totally puts me off!

And the other one of ... ''(sic)'' ... whatever that means!

TheWeirdo

The one I can't cope with is ''it's a pretty horrible thing'' '' I had a pretty nice cup of tea'' etc. I can never understand why ''pretty'' is put in front of everything! I use quite ... ''it was quite unusual'' and so on.

And brackets! Wh(y) do (we) have to (put) (b)rackets in every(t)hing too? When readying a new story or in books etc. it just totally puts me off!

And the other one of ... ''(sic)'' ... whatever that means!

“Sic” means “thus” and is often used where something is quoted which has been misspelled, might be missing a word or is grammatically (or otherwise) incorrect

Marydoll

I laughed when my consulatant called a lovely lady in a letter to my GP.

If only he knew....😉

My doctor referred to me as a lovely lady too! Do you think all doctors had a memo round telling them all to do that? 😂