I had a friend in 2nd grade whom I could terrorize and chase all around the playground by saying the word “food” and especially by brandishing the book we had in our classroom whose title was Food.
me: “Foooooooooooooood!”
him: “AAAAAaaaaah!” (flees in mad panic)
I think there are quite a few words that I dislike, but I don’t expect to be able to summon them all at once.
“tragedy” (abused to meaningless death by the news media industry)
“hero” (also abused to meaningless death by the news media industry)
“yo!”
“homework”
“your homework”
Some medical terms get me:
“hypertension” makes me hyper-tense
“urethra” (yick)
“polyps”
I also dislike many terms of philosophies I disdain (the cults of normality, the cult of the latest thing, conventional western economics, McCarthyism, intellectual property, Microsoftism, the war on terror), but mainly because I disagree with the philosophies:
“normal”
“life” (used to validate someone’s cynical resigned view of “reality” and “what it’s all about” and “the way it is” bla bla bla…)
“dated”
“dead” (meaning, something’s no longer popular with the ADD crowd anymore)
“real job”
“economic growth”
“career”
“amortize”
“subprime”
“write-downs”
“communist” (meaning non-capitalist)
“digital rights”
“intellectual property”
“innovation” (what did M$ screw up today?)
“freedom to innovate” (freedom of corporations to buy off the US government)
“technology” (applied to software)
“terrorism” (great, we’re “at war” with a meaninglessly-defined concept)
“homicide bomber” (thanks, FOX News)