For example I loathe the use of the term "junk" to refer to mens' genitalia. If there's one part of my body that is not junk? It'd be that.
I dislike "irony/ironic" because they get used by people who wouldn't know irony if it bit them on the ass, which it usually does. Schadenfreude, now? That's an awesome word.
Unique is up on my hate list because people seem to have no idea what it means and thus produce phrases like "more unique". Conversely, sui generis is just awesome and is almost never used except it was used last night by an NPR reporter in describing Ted Kennedy and I liked that.
It's all about the context
I dislike "irony/ironic" because they get used by people who wouldn't know irony if it bit them on the ass, which it usually does. Schadenfreude, now? That's an awesome word.
Unique is up on my hate list because people seem to have no idea what it means and thus produce phrases like "more unique". Conversely, sui generis is just awesome and is almost never used except it was used last night by an NPR reporter in describing Ted Kennedy and I liked that.