Didn’t know that about that messy complexity surrounding the word nice but I’ll just say that feels like a false equivalence in terms of recency of the words. Apparently that word is much older and went through the sloppy unfortunate conversion it has. Good to know about these etymological minefields though, you can’t just blindly consult etymology especially on old words where language has shifted. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/31368/what-are-t...
Those examples I’m guessing have no record of those who coined them, genocide however appears to have such a record.
Those examples I’m guessing have no record of those who coined them, genocide however appears to have such a record.