The other day, I described a conference call I'd been on as "interesting."
By "interesting," I really meant "completely whacked out that the client didn't understand why we were doing what we were doing which was exactly what they had asked us to do."
It struck me just how versatile a word "interesting" really is. I use it a lot in situations where I've really meant something or someone is:
I've also used "interesting" when really thinking:
No way around it: "interesting" has to be one of the best multi-use words out there. Maybe it's just behind the "F" word, which I gave up using (except for the occasional slip-up) a dozen years ago.
How about you - what's your favorite all-purpose word? - Mike Brown