circumlocution

A question if you will: What the hell is an ILR?Also yay I learned a word - circumlocution.

The effect is the same, the circumlocution allows them to say "it's natural!

This is handy for pointing out some common and boring circumlocution.

Although maybe not for the last sentence of an email that already had that much circumlocution.

The equivalent circumlocution for "he has X" is more or less "there is X for him".Languages are weirder than most people give them credit for.

So even people who are aware of the old distinctions need to use the modern circumlocutions to communicate clearly.

English uses phrasal verbs instead of reflexives and circumlocution in place of most subjunctives, but they're just as complicated.

Maybe I can call myself "unemployed speculator" or some other circumlocution so as to not offend anyone.

Such delicacy, such circumlocution, such discreet decorum, such reticence, such dignity and restraint!!!

Just like Google or Facebook, or any other organisation that you might care to mention, the NSA is a group of people, human beings, and fellow travellers on our annual circumlocution of Sol. I don't want to spit vile hatred, nor make any man my enemy, but I do want to communicate the depth and breadth of my concern for the things that we do, and the situations that we end up sleep-walking into.

Since the psychological reaction is associated with the signal, not with whatever additional propositional meaning it might have in the language, referring to it by circumlocution really does have a point- it lets you talk about the words without risking triggering someone's reaction to the words.

"Or, to render it into an alternative phrasal representation: this research deliverable could benefit from a linguistic coordinator acting as an intermediary between those endowed with the innate ability for circumlocution, and those who exhibit more cognitive agility in the face of realistic, less verbally obtuse configuration of presented material ..."