Vocabulary Challenge!
Mar. 23rd, 2005 06:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dr_tectonicOkay, 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 wereass 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...
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:
A:
B: I thought the graphics were
So? What's the word for this? Surely there's some obscure glossary term we can repurpose to cover it...
Totally pointless
Date: 2005-03-24 06:01 pm (UTC)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)