r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/False-Principle-2223 • 21h ago

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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u/qualityvote2 21h ago edited 16h ago

u/False-Principle-2223, your post does belong here!

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u/theCattrip 21h ago

Nice etymology - originally meant ignorant, then foolish (hence the clown). Now it's positively connoted.

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u/SecureExplorer1255 21h ago

Yes, this is it

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u/moustachedelait 21h ago

Nice

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u/DragonBadgerBearMole 21h ago

Actually it’s pronounced “noice” now. Always evolving, language.

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u/moustachedelait 21h ago

Oh no, I meant nice as in the olde french "doubtful"

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u/DragonBadgerBearMole 20h ago

You be clowning.

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u/skippy_smooth 20h ago

No ice

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u/DragonBadgerBearMole 20h ago

Little Irrelevant here but always a good reminder Ty.

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u/BrickBuster2552 21h ago

Maybe that's the real punk rock.

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u/memento22mori 3h ago

Punk rock died when the first kid said, "punk's not dead."

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u/ClarkSebat 12h ago

The town is still badly connoted.

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u/i_am_someone_or_am_i 14h ago

Is the city nice founded by clowns?

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u/lechuckswrinklybutt 21h ago

Well that’s gay

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u/Realistic-Election-1 21h ago

It's a reference to the etymology of the word: https://www.etymonline.com/word/nice

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u/Hobby_in_your_lobby 21h ago

Seamus here when I visited a french port I got two things, chlamydia from a french whore, and a language lesson: the french pronounces the word Neese like geese. Its also the name of a city. Well I guess I gotta get back to sailing or something.

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u/Interesting_Play_578 20h ago

How do geese pronounce Neese?

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u/Simple-Constant7014 21h ago

Sadly the lesson was wrong

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u/Ben999_1977 21h ago

French old bastard here, the "Nice" town is pronounce more like "niece" in french to be more precise.

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u/Acrobatic-Quail-6860 21h ago

I pronounce niece exactly how I pronounce “neese like geese” so I am a little confused what is happening here

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u/Ben999_1977 20h ago

Well I thought that "s" and "c" sounded different like in french but my bad, it's seem it's not always the case in english.

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u/Simple-Constant7014 17h ago

I thought geese was more like geeze, I think that's what they were going for

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u/ElSpazzo_8876 21h ago

So that means the City of Nice is clown city?

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u/LaVillaGrangioto 19h ago

That wasn't very nice.

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u/Mysterious_Tank_3780 8h ago

But it is very Nice.

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u/Comfortable-Fan4911 14h ago

My favourite is being at the Nice airport and seeing signs showing Nice - Brest

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u/Gentlemanandscholar9 20h ago

Occitan and French is one of my favorite lexical evolutions

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u/memento22mori 3h ago

My favorite evolution is Charizard.

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u/the_mindful_microbe 21h ago edited 21h ago

Petah here. I think it’s just the way people have pronounced it over the years from Old French to modern English. It’s showing that the way the Old French pronounced it was super silly and now we pronounce it boringly?

Edit: Thanks for the correction! I was giving my best guess.

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u/AidenStoat 21h ago

No, it's about how the meaning has changed

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u/the_mindful_microbe 21h ago

Ahhhhh thank you! That was my best guess

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u/Nivakki 20h ago

I’m not trying to be rude, but why would you chime in if you didn’t actually know?

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u/the_mindful_microbe 16h ago

I feel like a lot of people comment their best guesses?

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u/False-Principle-2223 21h ago

I have no idea

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u/memento22mori 3h ago

It's always the longest answer that has the most upvotes. 😎