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Uncyclopedia.

From their Dialect entry:

The Dialects are a tribe of pygmies from the tropical rainforests of Norway. They have vowed to destroy all peace loving nations in the world, and even France if they can be bothered.

History

When Norway was nuked by South Dakota in The Great War, the worst affected areas were far away from the urban and industrial centres of Norway, partly due to South Dakota's reverse psychology tactical strategy of bombing everything apart from possible strategic military targets.

The Dialects, who had already been banished to the countryside, were left horribly disfigured, and decades of coughing up spleens and giving birth to mutant babies later, and unable to withstand the glow of the sun, they set about crafting metallic exo skeletons for themselves, complete with rudimentary plungers..

This is very scary.

And it is unbelievably rich. It's like a wiki Onion, complete with the occasional turd. Not PC, not always funny, but there are a few good ones.

apophasis, hyponyms of "rhetorical device"

I went to the Microsoft/UW computational linguistics colloquium today. One very good talk, one very hand-wavey and vague talk that managed to actually use the expression "as for 'introspection', some people might call it 'navel-gazing', but we won't go there." This piece of disingenuousness inspired a little WordNet research during the talk (MS doesn't allow people onto their wireless network, but I have wordnet on my [gasp] Debian laptop). The word of the day is thus:

apophasis: mentioning something by saying it will not be mentioned.

from Wordnet: other hyponyms of rhetorical device