Translating “Minnesota Nice”
I’ve got to remind myself when I work with out-of-town Buyers — I have three such clients at the moment — that outside of Minnesota, “interesting” actually can mean “interesting.”
As in “unique” (in a good way), “provocative,” or “stimulating.”
When Minnesotans say it — especially in the context of house-hunting, and they enunciate the word slowing (“i-n-t-e-r-e-s-t-i-n-g”) — they invariably mean “unique” (in a bad way), “peculiar,” or “unusual” (also in a bad way).
