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One respondent mentions "y'all," an excellent example--English used to make a distinction between singular "thou" and plural "you," but now only Southern varieties of English are capable of this distinction without resorting to circumlocutions.
Newspapers coyly refer to it with euphemisms and circumlocutions, Tshirt vendors stock shirts emblazoned with its many parts of speech.
At best, they may be understood as diplomatic circumlocutions, designed to ease Russia's political dilemma in the Balkans and thus avert further frictions with Moscow," it said.
It is closer to the truth to say that woolly circumlocutions, psychobabblous phrasing and sentiments, and language used as if it were a game of horseshoes (in which one expects points for being close) offends me.