The woody language


The woody language sometimes called humorously xyloglossia or xylolalia, is a rhetorical figure consisting of avoiding presenting a reality by the use of turns of phrase and usual expressions.

It is a form of communication that can serve to conceal an incompetence or a reluctance to approach a subject by proclaiming abstract, pompous banalities or appealing more to feelings than to facts.

It is less a matter of impressing the interlocutor by passing for more learned than one is than evading the subject in order to avoid answering a question or an embarrassing subject.


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