I hate hate hate it when people try to be clever by changing the name of something casually, in order to denigrate it.
It’s kind of like a euphemism, but not quite - used a lot to show your disfavor with politicians or bands or just people you don’t like. Maybe someone will call George Bush George Bullshit, or one I saw online was referring to Sum 41 (a pop punk band) as Beastie 182, implying that they sound like a bad ripoff of the Beastie Boys and Blink 182.
Any technical term for it? It makes me skin crawl, regardless of whether I agree with the sentiment.
I just love how you express your opinion. I said there are features in common and provided a link so the OP could see if those features might apply to other instances that might be in question.
My reading of the OP was not that it was just those two instances but things like that. My link was an effort to point to something it might be. Your link is also something it might be. The OP will need to decide.
I didn’t spell out that I didn’t know what the OP was after, but perhaps I should have. In any case, rank dismissal of spoonerism as being wrong is presumptuous on your part.
Oh, stop your whinging. It’s not a spoonerism, spoonerisms don’t add syllables, though malapropisms might. But Spooner & Malaprop were classically those who misspoke accidentally, & the forms named after them are meant to be comic. The OP is looking for something that encompasses very plainly intentional slurs.
Exapno made a plain statement of fact. He didn’t insult you, and wasn’t even snarky.
As others have pointed out, spoonerism is flat-out wrong on several grounds, especially in that it is not a deliberate attempt to denigrate. When you “don’t know what the OP is after,” it’s often best not to reply at all.
