Why Bother Working ?: Avoid Giving Backhanded Compliments with the "Dinner Table Rule"

No matter who you are, it's easy to accidentally let a backhanded compliment slip through your dialogue. Maybe it's an overemphasis on a word like "actually," or an accidental "but" after saying something nice, but either way, it's annoying for the person on the receiving end. The Art of Manliness created the "Dinner Table Rule" to combat this problem.