Etymology 101 - Bless and Nice

[Mic nerks]

Lets have another lesson into the wonderful world of this bastard-language known as Englisch which is not fit for a Godbody and strays away from the original symbols and depictions used successfully to actually describe things for thousands of years.

The study of the history of words when they entered a language and where  there source came from - that is what etymology is.  How were the words formed and how has the meaning unfortunately and purposely changed over time ?

Here we decipher the roots / orgins of the words bless and nice.

bless (v.) - to mark or cleanse with blood.  To make sacred or holy by a sacrificial custom in Germanic paganism to mark with blood.

Old English bletsian, bledsian, Northumbrian bloedsian "to consecrate, make holy, give thanks," from Proto-Germanic *blodison "hallow with blood, mark with blood," from *blotham "blood" (see blood). 

Originally a blood sprinkling on pagan altars.

So go drink your blood put out your arm and make sure you "put the blood of Jesus on it" 

nice (adj.) late 13c., "foolish, stupid, senseless," from Old French nice (12c.) "careless, clumsy; weak; poor, needy; simple, stupid, silly, foolish," from Latin nescius"ignorant, unaware," literally "not-knowing," from ne- "not" (see un-) + stem of scire "to know" (see science). "The sense development has been extraordinary, even for an adj." [Weekley] -- from "timid" (pre-1300); to "fussy, fastidious" (late 14c.); to "dainty, delicate" (c.1400); to "precise, careful" (1500s, preserved in such terms as a nice distinction and nice and early); to "agreeable, delightful" (1769); to "kind, thoughtful" (1830). (etymologyonline.com) 

So as you can see do not bless me or really anyone for that matter and surely do not call me nice I am anything but that.

From the two listed above examples and basically with most words in this bastard language they have had other meanings from the languages they were derived words are like magic know the spell-eng-bee-of-words.

When it comes to the ROOT of words do not get caught up in the spelling its is the SOUNDS of the words that are important.