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Post your most hated words. Mine are, in no particular order:

- Web 2.0/3.0/over nine fucking thousand dot zero and anything 2.0/3.0/etc (just hype and circle-jerk)
- AJAX (just hype over using JS)
- Rig (stupid gamers say rig every 15 seconds)
- Blogosphere (ew)
- Social Networking (stupid crap)
- Podcast (stupid crap)
- Webinar (stupid crap)
- Streaming (overhyped obvious thing)
- Wiki (always sounded stupid to me)
- Netiquette (always sounded sissy to me)
- Digital Lifestyle (hello Mac users)
- eBook (stupid name)
- Anything that starts with "ez" (stupid lusers)
- Cyberspace (stupid word from lusers for lusers)

Never found "folksonomy", "AJAXify" or "Crowdsourcing", otherwise I'd hate them as well.

I actually love "cookies". Cookies are delicious delicacies. That's all users need to know. Things in this business would be better if we named them after random everyday things users can't attempt to understand, label or talk about.

<font color="#345E81" size="1">[ July 01, 2007 07:44 AM: Message edited by: -Wiseman- ]</font>