On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 14:17:42 -0700 Bob Proulx <[email protected]> wrote:
... > Language continuously evolves. The spoken language of Shakespeare is > almost impossible for me to understand when listened to with my ears. > And I am sure the reverse would be too. "Cool" never goes out of > style. "Nice" is pretty stable. But "rad", "sweet", "sick", "wicked" As someone else in this thread alluded (Lisi?), 'nice' has actually undergone a considerable evolution. Dictionary.com gives these five definitions [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/nice]: 1. pleasing; agreeable; delightful: a nice visit. 2. amiably pleasant; kind: They are always nice to strangers. 3. characterized by, showing, or requiring great accuracy, precision, skill, tact, care, or delicacy: nice workmanship; a nice shot; a nice handling of a crisis. 4. showing or indicating very small differences; minutely accurate, as instruments: a job that requires nice measurements. 5. minute, fine, or subtle: a nice distinction. The first two describe common contemporary usage, while the term used to be used mostly (exclusively) in the sense of the last two (the third seems a sort of hybrid between them). > only time will tell if they make it long term. Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
