decadence

[nibot]

apparently "decadence" means almost the opposite of what I thought it did

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[squarkz.livejournal.com]

weird. me too.

although "decadent" is closer to the mark, since one of the definitions is "self-indulgent", which is more how i've been thinking.

[janviere.livejournal.com]

Hm, the dictionary etymology for nice says: Middle English, foolish, from Old French, from Latin nescius, ignorant, from nescīre, to be ignorant.

Let's party like it's the fall of the Roman Empire.

nice and easy

[nanomonkey.livejournal.com]

Strangely enough I once read that to call someone nice used to mean you thought they were "easy". Not sure what time period that was though, I think perhaps Victorian, and perhaps it was just slang. I guess I could see how that stems from the whole ignorant Middle English meaning.

"...such a nice boy," she said coyly.