My Pet Peeve of the Day: "Gimmick" Words Making it Mainstream

[Martinus]

Does it annoy you, too? Someone invents a word in a spur of a moment, to make a clever commentary about something ("handi-capable" or "banksters") and it's all fine but it becomes annoying when the word makes it into mainstream, replacing the original word ("handicapped" or "bankers") in ordinary conversations, being used without the air quotes etc. Grrr.

[Eddie Teach]

banksters - no dictionary results
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Did you mean banksides

handi-capable - no dictionary results
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Most slang terms never end up replacing the original word.

[Duque de Bragança]

Bankster has been around for quite a while. Degrelle used it in the '30s. It has not replaced banker as well.

[CountDeMoney]

Does it annoy you, too? Someone invents a word in a spur of a moment, to make a clever commentary about something ("handi-capable" or "banksters") and it's all fine but it becomes annoying when the word makes it into mainstream, replacing the original word ("handicapped" or "bankers") in ordinary conversations, being used without the air quotes etc. Grrr.

It would probably annoy me if I lived in a backwards eastern European country who is more than 10 years behind the hipster vernacular calendar, yeah.