Vocabulary Challenge!

[dr_tectonic]

Okay, I have a challenge for all y'all what have a big vocabulary.

I know that there are lots of interesting words for various rhetorical techniques, like: apophasis -- to bring something up by saying that you're not going to mention it.

I need a word for a technique I've seen in comment threads: saying one thing in normal text, and what you're really thiking in strikethrough. Example:

A: Despite some negative reviews, I really liked Halo 2.
B: You X-Box slut. Meh. I didn't think so much of it, myself.
A: Nintendo whore! No? What did you dislike?
B: I thought the graphics were ass a little sub-par and the storyline was OMG LAMEZOR! kinda weak.

So? What's the word for this? Surely there's some obscure glossary term we can repurpose to cover it...

Comments

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

No, I'm pretty sure it's an apophasis. (Not an aposipesis.) So distinct, I know. =)

Litotes is an ironic negative understatement: "not the brightest" (i.e., dumb) or "not unsuccessful" (i.e., successful). Are you thinking of paraleipsis, which is nearly synonymous with apophasis? (And can you explain the subtle difference between the two to me, 'cause I couldn't quite get it?)

[stowellian.livejournal.com]

I propose "strikeside" as a combination of strike-through and aside.

[ng-nighthawk.livejournal.com]

What about "striketext?"

Totally pointless

[bryree.livejournal.com]

"Are you thinking of paraleipsis, which is nearly synonymous with apophasis? (And can you explain the subtle difference between the two to me, 'cause I couldn't quite get it?)"

Apparently, the two are precisely synonymous except that paraleipsis has a connection to 'preterition,' which is yet another synonym while also having legal and theological meanings.

(/lookingthingsupindictionary)