My friend in Transylvania speaks fluent - almost bilingual – English and we have great discussions about language. We passed a house painted a ghastly shade of pink and I said drily 'What an extraordinary colour'. Bogdan laughed, understanding completely that I was being cautiously polite while expressing my distaste. That afternoon he commented on something being 'interesting' in the same way that the house was 'extraordinary'. Romanians, he said, had the same ability as the English, the French and Italians to lay waste with compliments. The legacy of centuries of diplomacy.
Your task, then:
Come up with a sentence using the seemingly complimentary words 'extraordinary' or 'interesting' (or similar) where the context alone creates a marked difference in tone and intention.
Your task, then:
Come up with a sentence using the seemingly complimentary words 'extraordinary' or 'interesting' (or similar) where the context alone creates a marked difference in tone and intention.
