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

[detailbear.livejournal.com]

It would seem to have a elements of an oxymoron (two contradictory words together), a cacaphemism (opposite of euphemism — substituting a unpleasant term for a neutral one), and a pleonasm (redundant words, enriching the thought).

It also seems related to that game of inserting a pseudo-subliminal word or phrase into your conversation, quickly, at a lower volume. ("She's well-liked by all [tramp].")

I kind of like "ignore-rant" for a term for it. Or "un-struck" comments. Or maybe "passage-aggressive".

[bryree.livejournal.com]

Ironically, the practice seems to be engaging in both cacaphemism and euphemism simultaneously, err...rather...close on each others' heels.

Rather hard to do 'simultaneous' in the written word...