To get the rage when people use the word NAICE on MN?

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Would upu ever use it in real life? Makes me cringe to my bones!!!

"But how else do you describe good quality ham?"

*sarcasm alert
Jolly good GQH of course, then everyone knows what you are talking about.

I still struggle sometimes with all this SIL DH DC lark but know it is necessary. Slowly learning.

Naice is daft. Many daft things on t'internet.

What a weird take @drina27 You sound weirdly angry so I'm sending you sending you head tilts, tinkly laughs and un-mumsnetty hugs, hun.

There is nothing you can say on here that someone doesn't upset someone in some way. Sorry, that doesn't make someone's teeth itch.

I think people are reading too much into it someone making a little joke about posh ham doesn't mean we hate anyone who is MC. I mean some of my best friends are MC.

I don't like it, it's stupid. In real life nobody would say it, pronounced 'nace' as in 'mace'. I also think some of the abbreviations are ridiculous. However 'wouldn't of', 'bored of' and starting a sentence with 'so' is equally irritating.

No one is forcing us to post here, we can either accept or not.

to the desperate-to-be-middle-class types

I think you mean desperate to be upper middle class.

BookMeOnTheSudExpress Mon 02-Mar-20 09:17:37
Those who use it here are mocking the snobs!
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Which is in itself a type of snobbery and extremely defensive especially when those you are mocking are not snobs but just speaking/writing naturally.

One may start a sentence with “So...” if one is making a point. That also applies to the words “and” and “but”. We are now in the 21st Century!

I have in my head an image of the types of posters who think it’s so amusing

Exactly this. I think this is why it irritates me so much.

There is nothing you can say on here that someone doesn't upset someone in some way.

Translate?

It's just a silly joke word, same as saying la-di-da, getting the rage from it seems a bit daft.

But then, 'fuming' and 'horrid' really get on my nerves, so I suppose we all have our bugbears.

Does it "Do your head in?"

But it’s a mumsnet convention, it’s not meant to be a real life word.

You use different language conventions in different situations. Computer mediated communication (to use the technical term) follows distinct patterns. It’s not supposed to be as grammatically precise as formal English. It is essentially transcribed speech - hence the made up words, the phonetically transcribed sounds and the use of colloquialisms like ‘of’ instead of ‘have’.

These things have a secondary function of flushing out different groups of users and identifying outsiders who aren’t au fait with the in-jokes.

Don’t you mean oh fay?

Or if you are trying to be desperately upper middle:
eau fay

Makes me smile.
My mum speaks naice on the phone when she puts on her posh voice.

There are lots of sayings that will irritate people here on MN. Its only meant as a bit of fun.

So you like snobs Lynda?
Ok. Each to their own.

But it’s a mumsnet convention, it’s not meant to be a real life word.

My mug, pictured upthread, is a real life entity. Blame MNHQ for that. I'm inclined to think it was an error of judgement because, of course, I'm fussy about the mugs I use for naice coffee.

www.lexico.com/definition/naice

It originated in the early 20th C so MN isn't totally to blame for this outrage on the OP's nice sensibilities.

Naice is a very useful word! It conveys a value system in a very simple but flexible way, that has a specific meaning conferred by context. it's something everyone immediately understands & saves a lot of words

This ^^

Oh I hate that one too

Yes, I guess it saves a lot of words - probably because posters don’t have the words to use in the first place! So purely missing out words to convey what they really mean, luckily can just be replaced by a made up one said in a “snarky” way to irritate people. Let’s think of lots more then conversations will be deliciously short!

It is sometimes funny anda quick way to convey something but it can be a bit sneery and a swipe at Hyacinth Bucket types.

All of us have words and phrases we dislike. It's a big site. Yabu.

I remember back in the days when this started with the shopping lists and the naice ham.

Everyone knows there's ham and there's naice ham!

We've not had a good shopping list thread for ages.

I agree OP. It's bloody irritating.