Timeline for What is the opposite of "interesting" in "This person is interesting"?
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| Jan 3, 2012 at 19:58 | comment | added | slim | For some reason this came up recently; someone didn't know that "vanilla" was used as an adjective meaning "plain". For this reason I think it's still mainly a geek thing. | |
| Jan 4, 2011 at 2:47 | comment | added | PLL | @Martha: vanilla started out as a noun, but through use in compounds acquired an adjectival sense, and is now definitely used as an adjective. OED comments “4. Passing into adj.: vanilla-coloured, vanilla-flavoured.” while more niche and less conservative lexica(?) list this more confidently. The jargon file is probably the canonical reference for this sense, though I don’t know whether it originated in hacker speak and was disseminated via the internet, or whether it was already mainstream slang in the years Before WWW. | |
| Nov 20, 2010 at 23:06 | comment | added | Jon Purdy | Poor, scorned vanilla. It's a unique, beautiful, and complex flavour, and people just kick it into the gutter as "generic" because of the ice cream industry in the 1970s. God damn them. | |
| Nov 19, 2010 at 22:01 | comment | added | Marthaª | Except "vanilla" is a noun. Sometimes people abbreviate the phrase "vanilla-flavored" and just say "vanilla ice cream", but you can't do that with things that have no flavor, vanilla or otherwise. ... Plus, I like vanilla. | |
| Nov 19, 2010 at 13:17 | history | answered | PyroTyger | CC BY-SA 2.5 |