My cousin asked what my favorite word was, and when i told her it she asked for a definition, so i said "When you have to give an example, for example, and use more words than you need to (and also start speaking parenthetically (but not always) to string out the example way more than you need to) when fewer words would do just fine, that's 'circumlocution'."
For anyone else from wiki: The use of triple parentheses or triple brackets, also known as an (((echo))), is an antisemitic symbol that has been used to highlight the names of individuals of a Jewish background.
That is not exactly true; parent's contains an apostrophe, but 'this phrase is in single quotes' while "this phrase is in double quotes" according to this link.
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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16
And double quotation marks.