Ofu: “I gave a compliment to someone yesterday, and he got offended and then threw his glasses away. I was reported to my teacher, and she tried to email mom, but it didn’t go through.”

Me: “I can imagine. That was a misunderstood compliment. He didn’t get it.”

My son shared how he gave his classmate a rhetorical compliment, which was misunderstood. We had this conversation about using standard English all the time with people who may not understand our rhetoric.  

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