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Word choice is problematic: "vanillify" (exceedingly rare, new jargon "to make bland" doesn't even show up in google ngrams) is too similar to "vilify" (to dem
by kbutler 11y ago
Word choice is problematic:
"vanillify" (exceedingly rare, new jargon "to make bland" doesn't even show up in google ngrams) is too similar to "vilify" (to demonize) to use in a context of "to un-demonize". https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=vanillify&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url= https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=vanillify&case...
"face of" or "poster boy for", rather than the mixed-up "poster face for". https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=poster+boy%2Cposter+face&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t4%3B%2Cposter%20boy%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bposter%20boy%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BPoster%20Boy%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cposter%20face%3B%2Cc0#t4%3B%2Cposter%20boy%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bposter%20boy%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BPoster%20Boy%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cposter%20face%3B%2Cc1 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=poster+boy%2Cp...
But then, just because nobody says it that way isn't a reason not to...
- savanaly 11y agoI read it twice and then saw what he meant. I think he's alluding to how since the flavor vanilla is associated with whiteness, "vanillify" has a cheeky double meaning: make more respectable and make more white skinned.
- jdmichal 11y agoFunnily enough, vanilla is actually very dark. The bean itself is dark-brown-almost-black, and the extract is also a dark brown liquid. Vanilla ice cream is white because milk is white, and because it doesn't take a lot of vanilla to flavor it. If you have a good vanilla ice cream, you'll see little black specs in it; that's the vanilla.