What To Do If You Think Your Friend Is About To Marry The Wrong Person
This one is borderline, because you might say it for rhetorical flourish or intentional understatement. But, since most people like being told that they were right, people with high emotional intelligence would probably stay away from it. Basically, it’s a litote — reverse negative in this case, intended to create an understated positive. In fairness, I don’t mean that people with high emotional intelligence never say the words, but they don’t use it in normal conversation simply because other people […]