This has cropped up at work, because we historically refer to training days as orientation days. So people will speak of being orientated to something.
Something even worse is a pseudo-technical term, "kicked in". Arrg! What does that mean? Usually referred to something starting. Picked up is a technical term that is OK.
Or, "hike" for any kind of rate or price increase.
Or, the trend of computer speak to use hard-hitting action verbs to refer to something that is really only happening at the software level- fragged, crashed, etc.
Nucular for nuclear makes sense to me, it seems a regional thing -much easier to say. Greezy for greasy drives me round the bend.
I could go on, but I better stop.



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