Linguistic or typsetting term for use of [quizzical]faux coding to express a thought[/quizzical]?

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I was wondering if this [sarcasm]esteemed community of dopers[/sarcasm] could answer this question:

I often see [air quotes]“netizens”[/air quotes] using faux bits of coding instructions to insert text based editorial commentary that would otherwise be unspoken and perhaps conveyed by body language or a muttered side comment in a real-life conversation. (Perhaps a close relative to “smilies” :rolleyes: except there’s no smilie available for that precise thought.) Is there a term for this, or better yet has any study been made of it?

Also, any favorite examples from this board or elsewhere?

[coughing]BLOWJOB[/coughing]

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Well, in technical usage, it’s called “markup”. I believe the origin was from things like HTML (Hyper-Text Markup Language) and its predecessors. Linguistically? Maybe it’s a quotative?

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This TVTropes article calls them “faux HTML tags”.