Oporto

A nice restaurant.

These three words can be dissected in any way you want them to. For instance, have you fully explored what 'nice' actually means?

The word 'nice'

It appears that the word 'nice', which we clearly use solely to mean something that is pleasant has in fact gone through many changes over the years. Had I been writing in the 15th century, for instance, my remark would be in fact negative. It would be referring to the waiters refusing to give you your order, and instead giving you soup with artificial fly. Or maybe if they like it, oat porridge à l'blue. In Modern English, for this same remark, we'd say, 'A stupid restaurant'. After all, nice comes from the Latin nescius, meaning ignorant, so perhaps it's Modern English's fault?

One hundred years later, my remark would have used nice to mean lazy, so noticing that the restaurant was nicknamed O-pause-to for a reason, as it took hours for my order to come, even if it was just chips.

Thankfully, by the dawn of the 20th century, nice had acquired its meaning, and I could heap praise on Oporto for these qualities, rather than it being lazy.

The word 'A'

'A' could be a word or a letter, just like 'I' or 'O'... which are also vowels. Coincidence? I think not.

For that matter, vowels are more, uh, versatile than consonants. You need so many of them.

For instance, let's take an analysis of the previous sentence (beginning with 'For that matter' and ending with 'of them'. I think.)

69 letters, of which... er... 25 are vowels. Yes, 25. So, that is approximately 36.3% vowels in that sentence. So we need fewer of them because they can do so many jobs. A consonant, which make up 63.7% of this sentence, can only do one or two things.

So, yeah, vowels are better.

The word 'restaurant'

Somewhere where you eat. That's literally the definition. Also, it's 'restaurateur' not 'restauranteur'. Know the difference. It could save you life. Seriously, dining critics can be mad, dangerous, and armed (with a knife and fork).