Original Compliments

Original compliments are a concept which is in the middle between silly and humorous compliments. They are less weird than the former and more inoffensive than the latter appreciation expressers.

It should be stressed that original compliments can be of two types. The first one implies certain awkwardness or oddness put in their sense. For instance, 'you are musically beautiful tonight' or 'your hair is shining like the ice' etc. At first glance they are more or less adequate, but when we come across with them without knowing the context (or with knowing that there is no particular context), then they do sound very original if not slightly strange.

The second type of original compliments suggests their so-called impressive originality which prompts you their closer relation to impressive compliments than to any other type. For instance, 'I like the sweet life and the silence but it's the storm that I believe in', - a line which vividly illustrates a very original compliment. You won't notice it if you don't pay attention at the title which is 'You're the Storm'. Of course, additional supporters of such an original compliment to a man would be a few more lines from this song: 'and if you want me I'm your country, if you win me I'm forever, coz you're the storm that I believed in, and all this peace has been deceiving. I need some wind to get me sailing so it's the storm that I believe in' – original, isn't it?