“Lovely”

I had an interesting day out, a beautiful day out, an enjoyable day out, some other words that spring to mind instead of lovely or nice. Sure there are many more

HousePlantQueen

grandtanteJE65

There is a fashion in language as in everything else.

Remember our school-days (late 1960s) when everything was "fab"? Then "fantastic", "groovy" and more recently "awesome".

"Lovely" instead of "nice" will go the way of all the others. It is harder to predict what the new term will be.

My English teacher was very critical of the word nice.

We were forbidden to use ‘nice’ and ‘get/got’ by our English teacher!

Nowadays it seems everything is ‘stunning’, and online I see people saying they are ‘obsessed’ with something they like.

Dickens

Crossstitchfan

Flumps70

Everyone I speak to says aww bless

‘Aww bless’ is an expression that really gets up my nose. I know I’m being unreasonable but I think it’s because it is a response used by pretty much everyone nearly all the time and it has now begun to p* me off! My hairdresser is a good example. When I tell her about anything that has happened in my life, whether it’s good or bad, her reaction is always that! One day, I’ll pluck up the courage to ask her exactly what she is blessing!

Apparently, there's also a greeting among the 'bros' with street cred, or wannabee gangstas...

"bless up"

... which can be used on greeting or departing...

I saw a GP once who kept saying "Ah, bless" as I described my symptoms to her.
Never saw her again, she was only with the practice for a few months.

I have thoroughly enjoyed reading the posts on here. I can be a grumpy old git and pedantic at times and also get irritated at overuse of words and phrases......Sometimes to the extent that I'll throw in some 'clever' remark. Words are important- they are a means of communicating with our fellow humans and animals. But we know the difference between the same irritating words when they are used with warmth and affection , ( I have been known to address my daughter as lovely girl) with sarcasm, condemnation or simply as a speech habit. When I overuse words it's usually habit or laziness. I can generally forgive others for this but tend to be less indulgent with myself.

Crossstitchfan

Flumps70

Everyone I speak to says aww bless

‘Aww bless’ is an expression that really gets up my nose. I know I’m being unreasonable but I think it’s because it is a response used by pretty much everyone nearly all the time and it has now begun to p* me off! My hairdresser is a good example. When I tell her about anything that has happened in my life, whether it’s good or bad, her reaction is always that! One day, I’ll pluck up the courage to ask her exactly what she is blessing!

Apparently, there's also a greeting among the 'bros' with street cred, or wannabee gangstas...

"bless up"

... which can be used on greeting or departing...

Flumps70

Everyone I speak to says aww bless

‘Aww bless’ is an expression that really gets up my nose. I know I’m being unreasonable but I think it’s because it is a response used by pretty much everyone nearly all the time and it has now begun to p* me off! My hairdresser is a good example. When I tell her about anything that has happened in my life, whether it’s good or bad, her reaction is always that! One day, I’ll pluck up the courage to ask her exactly what she is blessing!

Lots of chocolate for me to eat, lots of smells coming from my feet (my dad's version)
Oh, wouldn't it be luvver-lee?

SueDonim sometimes things and people just are lovely!

I also admit to overusing the word lovely. I will have to get more creative with my vocabulary.

I told the young woman who washed my hair and gave me a head massage at the salon today that it had been lovely and thanked her for it. I immediately felt guilty about using lovely and wondered if I should have said nice or terrific or brilliant or beautiful or joyful instead.

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? 😂

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

vocabulary weak.

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.

How do you “lovely “??