Niceeeeee

[64sNewName]

See also ‘loveeeeee’.

I see these sometimes in contexts like IG comments or hashtags. They make me twitch. The time has come for me to have a pedantic moan about them. 😑

I can see that people might want to use elongated versions of ‘nice’ and ‘love’ for emphasis. But in my head, if I were to stretch out e.g. the word ‘nice’ I’d stretch out the middle vowel, as you sometimes hear people do in speech.

What irritates me is that I don’t know whether these versions are messed-up attempts to render that sound (annoyingly illogical), or whether they’re truly meant as a jokey addition and elongation of a final ee sound. As if you were saying ‘Nicey!’ and dragging out the second syllable (just plain annoying).

I need to know which way to be annoyed. It’s killing me. Help

[Cardboardeaux]

This annoys me too! Whenever I see anyone write (eg) 'I'm so boreddddd') I pronounce all the Ds in my head It would make more sense to write 'boooored'

[lazylinguist]

Phew - I thought it was just me who found this really annoying!

[SoftBlocks]

Me too! It should be ‘Niiiiiiiice!’

[plonkie]

Omg yes. It makes no sense

[64sNewName]

Thank you. It soothes my heart to know that I am not alone.

Re ‘boredddddd’: wow. So even words ending in un-elongatable consonants are not immune from this nonsense.

[BrexitBingoGenerator]

I couldn’t agree more, I think these elongations are beyond awful.