Three recent examples of taboo avoidance in the media, each with its own points of interest: (1) a thoroughly avoidable use of “[expletive]” in the NYT, which generally avoids such things; (2) the ostentatious denominal derived verb un-four-letter-Anglo-Saxon-word, on the RedState site; and (3) the playful noun-that-I-can’t-print-in-this-newspaper, from a NYT columnist. (1) Ostentatious “[expletive]”. From “Cooking Isn’t … Continue reading Taboo avoidance trio