| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - the figure is designed to avoid unambiguously suggesting certain social attitudes to listeners who disapprove of them (as distinct from euphemisns, which enable the speaker to avoid uttering a coextensive term that some listeners find unsavory). ???Obliquity??? conveys one part of this, and ???conivinutation??? nicely conveys the other, though neither is a word they would let you use on public rad
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