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diplomatic language

 
     
  Special language employed in an effort to minimize the provocation likely to be caused by delivery of a sharp or unavoidably threatening message. It is typically mild, euphemistic, and circumlocutory.


The technical words and phrases of the craft of diplomacy (sense 1).


The language most commonly employed for general communication in a diplomatic system. For example, in the Ancient Near East this was Akkadian; in the European system it was first Latin and then French; and in today\'s world system it is English.
 
 

 

 

 
 
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