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God Of Paradise posted:Circumlocution - the use of many words where fewer would do, especially in a deliberate attempt to be vague or evasive. Also can be used as a technique to translate a word into a language that you're familiar with, but don't already know the word, if you have a native speaker on hand. Like, to go back to grade school for a second, say you're trying to find the word "Apple" in Spanish. One could say, its a round fruit, (fruta redonda), that grows on trees, (se crece por arboles.) The idea is that you start with very broad statement about the object that you're trying to translate, and start to refine the details finer and finer. Therefore you're speaking (-locution) around (circum-) the word.
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