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  2. 140 Funny Compliments That Will Make Anyone's Day - AOL

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    Related: The Ultimate List of 205 Funny Names That Are Simply Hilarious. Funny Compliments for Coworkers. 121. Your spreadsheet skills are so impressive, Excel probably writes about you in its ...

  3. 23 of the Best Backhanded Compliments We’ve Ever Heard - AOL

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    For years, whenever I wanted to compliment someone, I’d quote the film’s famous line: “That’ll do, Pig, that’ll do.” Recently, I finally got my husband to watch the movie with me.

  4. People Who Were Rarely Complimented as Children Often ... - AOL

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    A compliment can brighten someone's day at any age—a "great job" from Dad after a T-ball game (win or lose) and a "nice work" from a boss following a work presentation can lift a person's ...

  5. Complimentary language and gender - Wikipedia

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    Compliments between men comprised a mere 9 percent of the data. [3] Similar patterns have been noted in studies of English speakers from other regions as well. In written discourse, too, such patterns arose, as women tended to compliment other women more often than they complimented men, and more often than men complimented either each other or ...

  6. Compliment sandwich - Wikipedia

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    A compliment sandwich, [1] praise sandwich, or feedback sandwich is a rhetorical technique to deliver criticism in a way that it is accepted by the criticized person. It is named after the metaphor of a sandwich since it has three parts: [2] Praise of the addressee; Expressing what the speaker dislikes about the person; Further praise of the ...

  7. Compliments slip - Wikipedia

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    Example of compliments slip, 1951. A compliments slip (or with compliments slip) is a slip of paper that contains the same name and address information that would be on a letterhead of formal letter stationery, the pre-printed salutation "with compliments" or "with our/my compliments", and space afterwards for a short handwritten message to be added.

  8. Here's Why Taylor Swift Has the Perfect Response to ... - AOL

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    Swift’s response to compliments isn’t just a childhood saying. She’s stuck with it all her life because it works and, even more importantly, it’s authentic .

  9. Politeness theory - Wikipedia

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    Examples: compliments, expressions of envy or admiration, or expressions of strong negative emotion toward the hearer (e.g. hatred, anger, distrust). An act that expresses speaker's future imposing of positive effects toward the hearer, as either rejection or acceptance put pressure on the hearer and may incur a debt.