stackyFACTSYou just asked for a simple answer, but now you are getting the entire origin story of the wristwatch. Circumstantial speech is a tedious, indirect way of speaking where the person eventually reaches the point, but only after dragging you through a suffocating maze of totally irrelevant background information.
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