Nice ain’t so nice!

  • 10th October 2007 at 3:32 pm
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27 Responses to Nice ain’t so nice!

  1. Nestor Negodiajev says:
    24 Aug, 2011 at 7:40 pm

    Marina make the successful video for real. This video is not difficult for translate what she talk about.

  2. iluv2cutfarts says:
    10 May, 2010 at 11:01 pm

    This marks the first time that HFW decides to investigate! Her humor is coming out more and more too with her funnies at the end of the videos. Marina has always had it!
    :grin:

  3. darlingj says:
    25 Apr, 2009 at 7:01 pm

    Now there you see – another thing I’ve known all my life turned on it’s head…

    I was always being nice just to get presents from Santa! So what does that imply about me? :twisted:

    And then also, why was Santa trying to get me to be like that? :twisted:

    Just what is really going on here anyway? :???:

  4. bsomebody says:
    02 Apr, 2009 at 5:21 pm

    See, this vid is pretty cool. Do you really think four and a half minutes is too long?

  5. paradisexcali says:
    27 Mar, 2009 at 12:03 am

    IMPORTANT QUESTION MARINA? DURING WHAT PERIOD IN TIME DID THE ENGLISH TRANSFORM THE USE OF THE WORD NICE?

  6. leonard says:
    05 Feb, 2009 at 8:36 am

    Perfect. This video proves how your subliminal suction made you Numb.er one Teacher. Great random lesson :shock: you are the sugar beet of life :wink: Nice The Lemon Pipers – Green Tambourine / Rice Is Nice [RICE]…I hope i don’t over do my commenting :neutral: food for thought

  7. Evan Owen says:
    05 Jan, 2009 at 9:17 pm

    Hey I visited a really Nice city on the French Riviera once… :mrgreen:

  8. minnesinger says:
    10 Nov, 2008 at 4:37 pm

    There may be more roots to the less positive connotations of this word. At least as far back as the 14th Century it was sometimes used to mean “wanton, loose-mannered, lascivious”. In 1366 Chaucer wrote “Nyce (“nice”) she was, but she mente noone harme ne slight in hir entente, But oonely lust and jolyte”. The spelling is a bit outdated, but I think the meaning comes through pretty well. The word carried opposite meanings. As early as 1573 it was used to mean effeminate, unmanly, so maybe that’s part of the word’s transition to its current status as a “kiss of death” in the dating scene. :neutral: Anyhow, I love HFW’s pursuance of her chosen strand of the word’s history.

  9. BillyB says:
    27 Oct, 2008 at 8:24 pm

    After hitting the random lesson tab, I got a ni.. great lesson on the word nice. I still don’t look at it as a bad word, No doubt I will look at it with a little more of a suspisious mind from now on.

  10. mijj says:
    09 Oct, 2008 at 8:46 pm

    :!: Happy birthday, “Nice ain’t so nice!” video!! :!:

    … well .. in a few hours, anyway.

  11. James says:
    22 Jul, 2008 at 4:14 pm

    6

  12. tedt says:
    10 Jul, 2008 at 6:32 pm

    2:20 :shock: :razz:

  13. matalexwolf says:
    10 Jul, 2008 at 9:54 am

    always felt the nice word a little, meaningless, cheap if you will. in fact, i would say that Nice should not be a word at all. There should be a law against it! :???:

  14. headwaves says:
    17 May, 2008 at 2:59 pm

    Hey Marina

    In the UK, by putting the word really in front of nice it can actually be a good thing eg “She was really nice.” or “I had a really nice time.” Without the really it wouldn’t be a good thing to hear.

    Take care x

  15. anti-heart<E says:
    23 Mar, 2008 at 12:58 am

    wow, thats amazing
    i think i’ll go to school on monday
    and walk up to ‘someone’ and say that they’re ‘Nice’.

    <E ily HotForWords

  16. apollokid36 says:
    17 Mar, 2008 at 4:35 pm

    so nice can be used as a backhand compliment lol i like it

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