Insistent Terminology/Quotes

"NOTICE: This page was not 'hacked', it was 'hijacked', completely legal, we just unadmined the old admins."

—Christian Beadles., Facebook page

"I'm not a 'crazed gunman', dad, I'm an assassin! Well, the difference being, one is a job, and the other's mental sickness!"

—The Sniper, Team Fortress 2

Granddad: Now hold up, Slickback...
A Pimp Named Slickback: No, that's "A Pimp Named Slickback".
Granddad: That's what I said! Slickback!
A Pimp Named Slickback: No, no! It's "A Pimp Named Slickback!" Like A Tribe Called Quest; you say the whole thing! "A Pimp Named Slickback!"
Granddad: Can't I just call you Slickback for short?
A Pimp Named Slickback: NO, nigga! I'm "A Pimp Named Slickback!"
Granddad: Cristal, who is this person?
A Pimp Named Slickback: Nigga, are you deaf? I'm A Pimp Named Slickback! Say it with me now!!

—The Boondocks, "Guess Hoes Coming To Dinner"

"I don't like this word 'bomb'. It is not a bomb but a device that is exploding."

—French Ambassador Jacques Leblanc, on nuclear weapons

Tony Greig: The Australians, too, looking resplendent in their bright canary yellow, here.
Bill Lawry: Canary yellow? That's Australian gold, my friend, and don't you fucking forget it! "Canary yellow", indeed!

—Twelfth Man Again

"Call me a treasure hunter or I'll rip your lungs out!"

—Locke Cole (who is not a thief), Final Fantasy VI

"It's not pink, it's lightish red!"

—Private Donut, Red vs. Blue

"Write it in English, not in Pentagonese. It's not a launcher, rifle cartridge, 7.62mm; it's a rifle. Call it a compass, not a direction-finding module. And if someone insists on being called AdComPhibsPac, the Fact File should explain to those not gifted in garblespeak that he's talking about the administrative office of the communication services for amphibious forces in the Pacific."

—Preface to The United States Department of Defense Fact File

"Right, because nothing says 'covert' like bright red, yellow, and blue spandex."
"THAT IS NOT SPANDEX!"
"Doc K can get a little defensive about his work."
"The material is a self-assembling nanofiber formed with an inter-cellular shape memory alloy."

—Dillon, Dr. K, and Summer, Power Rangers RPM ("Rain")

"What do you mean 'what eyes'? Right there--the front of our Zords."
"They are not 'eyes.' They are optical field scanning sensors for your cockpit's HUD display."
"Well, they look like . . . well, they look . . . like . . ."
"They look like eyes!"

"Big, googly anime eyes."

—Scott, Dr. K, Dillon, and Ziggy, Power Rangers RPM ("Ranger Blue".)

D'Argo: You cloned me!

Kaavork: Not the word “clone,” please. I doubled you. I... "twinned" you. Two D’Argos, equal and original... and tasty.

—Farscape, "Eat Me"

Sam: So, what do you think of all these Samulacra running around?

Max: Doggelgangers.

—Sam and Max Beyond the Alley of the Dolls

Phoenix Wright: So, how did this guy die?
Rainbow Dash: Pony...
Phoenix Wright: Wha...?
Rainbow Dash: "How did this pony die?" is what you mean Nix.
Phoenix Wright: (Well excuse me, I didn't take "Hooked on Ponyics")

—Turnabout Storm

Mario: You didn't tell me you were bringing a secret weapon, Luigi!

Luigi: That's Mama Luigi to you, Mario! [wheeze]

—Super Mario World cartoon

"I know you prefer Abduction, but the proper word is Rape. It's short and businesslike."

—El Gallo, The Fantasticks

Mrs. Van Schuyler: You perfectly foul French upstart!
Hercule Poirot: Belgian upstart, please, madame.

—Death on the Nile

Lisa: Wait a second... you planted a phony skeleton for me to find! This was all a big hoax!
Businessman: Heh heh heh, not a hoax; a publicity stunt!

—The Simpsons, "Lisa the Skeptic"

Peter: Don't say "retard," Chris; we prefer to be called "little people."

—Family Guy, "Petarded"