Can we come up with a punchy name for good uses of “reverse tabooing”?
How about “Plancheting”?
A ‘planchet’ is a blank coin, ready to be minted—which seems analogous to what’s being done with these words (and has the delightful parallelization of metaphor with “coining a phrase”).
The downside of this is that most people won’t know what “planchet” means. The advantage of “taboo” is it’s already intuitive what is meant when you here it.
How about “Plancheting”?
A ‘planchet’ is a blank coin, ready to be minted—which seems analogous to what’s being done with these words (and has the delightful parallelization of metaphor with “coining a phrase”).
The downside of this is that most people won’t know what “planchet” means. The advantage of “taboo” is it’s already intuitive what is meant when you here it.
That’s a good point.