History Main / InsistentTerminology

[[folder:It's not Professional Wrestling, its Sports Entertainment]]

* Some wrestlers, such as Wrestling/RicFlair, have gotten away from some traditional terms like "heel", preferring to be called "bad guy" now that "{{mark}}s" know it. Fans are referred to as marks because they get hooked by angles but some fans identify as {{smark}}s, since they know pro wrestling is show business. The argument here is that marks still get worked and the only "smarts" are those who have worked in the industry and thus intimately know how to work marks.

[[folder:This Is Not an Aggregation of Stories Being Acted Out on Stage. This Is the Theater.]]

[[folder:We Would Appreciate if You Called It Web Animation as Opposed to Internet Cartoons]]

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Bartholomew Oobleck is to be addressed as ''Doctor'', not Professor. He worked hard for his PHD.

[[folder:They Are Newspaper Comics, ''Not'' Comic Books in Paper]]

* [[InsistentTerminology/{{Fan Works}} Here is a Collection of Fan Works, NOT Alternate Adventures Enthusiasts Wrote.]]

* [[InsistentTerminology/LiveActionFilms I Would Like it if You Said "Live-Action Films," Because "Comedic or Dramatized Extended Life Snapshots" Sounds Kind of Pretentious.]]

* [[InsistentTerminology/LiveActionTV This Isn't Stuff Real Actors Imitate on the Idiot Box. This is Live-Action TV, and You Would Do Well to Call it by its Proper Name.]]

* [[InsistentTerminology/{{Professional Wrestling}} Professional Wrestling, Not a Bunch of Men Headlocking Each Other for Fun and Profit. It Disgusts the Enterprise's Fans that You Would Call it That.]]

* [[InsistentTerminology/{{Western Animation}} Do Not Call it Cartoons from the Americas and Europe. Call it Western Animation. The Word "Cartoons" Sickens the Good People of Those Continents.]]
* [[InsistentTerminology/{{Real Life}} It is Not Nonfiction. It's Real Life.]]

[[folder:They are Newspaper Comics, NOT Comic Books in Paper]]
* ''BloomCounty'': Opus takes a job as a garbageman, but insists on being called a "waste-management artisan" instead.
* ''USAcres'': [[http://garfield.com/us-acres/1991-06-29 Booker was afraid he and a worm would fall off a cliff. From that height, the worm believed ""plummet" would be more like it".]]

[[folder:They are Tabletop Games, NOT Things that Use Boards, Cards and Dice]]
* Rampant in ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension''. First, you have the terminology split between the Council of Nine Traditions and the Technocratic Union - "Enlightened Science" versus "Magic," "Reality Deviant" versus "Mage," and so on. Then, you get into the hair-splitting between a given Tradition or Convention over specific items - there are four different terms for Paradox amongst the Technocrats (only Iteration X and the NWO use the same term), each group has its own specific term for an Avatar, and so on.

[[folder:This is Not Stories Being Acted Out on Stage. This is the Theater.]]

* ''The25thAnnualPutnamCountySpellingBee'': William Barfee constantly reminds Panch and Peretti that [[ItIsPronouncedTroPAY his name is always pronounced Bar-''FAY''. There's an accent egue.]]
* An old Vaudeville joke involves a man who thinks he's found his long-lost friend. The straight man says nothing except "I'm not Rappaport", thereby giving the joke its name. It also inspired a successful play in TheEighties as well as a film starring Walter Mathau.

* Toys such as GIJoe and the {{Transformers}}, which are marketed for boys, '''are not dolls. They are ACTION FIGURES.''' ''Dolls'' are toys that girls play with, such as {{Franchise/Barbie}} or PollyPocket.
** The term "action figure" was originally coined to describe the original 12 inch GI Joe toys. Those, however, actually were dolls. Modern Joe toys and Transformers are totally action figures.

[[folder:We Would Appreciate if You Called it Web Animation as Opposed to Internet Cartoons]]

* Donut of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' insists that his armor is ''not'' pink, it is ''lightish red.''

* [[InsistentTerminology/{{Live-Action Films}} I Would Like it if You Said "Live-Action Films," Because "Comedic or Dramatized Extended Life Snapshots" Sounds Kind of Pretentious.]]

* [[InsistentTerminology/{{Live-Action TV}} This Isn't Stuff Real Actors Imitate on the Idiot Box. This is Live-Action TV, and You Would Do Well to Call it by its Proper Name.]]

[[DescribeTopicHere Hey, we aren't "describing" Insistent Terminology, we are "articulating" it!]]

* ''BloomCounty'': Opus takes a job as a garbageman, but insists on being called a "waste-management artisan" instead.

* Rampant in ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension''. First, you have the terminology split between the Council of Nine Traditions and the Technocratic Union - "Enlightened Science" versus "Magic," "Reality Deviant" versus "Mage," and so on. Then, you get into the hair-splitting between a given Tradition or Convention over specific items - there are four different terms for Paradox amongst the Technocrats (only Iteration X and the NWO use the same term), each group has its own specific term for an Avatar, and so on.

* ''Theatre/LesMiserables'': In response to being addressed by his prison number (24601), Valjean says "My ''name'' is Jean Valjean."
** Conversely, InspectorJavert makes a point of calling Valjean "24601" on several occasions.
* ''The25thAnnualPutnamCountySpellingBee'': William Barfee constantly reminds Panch and Peretti that [[ItIsPronouncedTroPAY his name is always pronounced Bar-''FAY''. There's an accent egue.]]

* You don't have ''Legos'', you have ''LEGO® Bricks'' or ''LEGO® toys''. This is a little bit of StuckOnBandAidBrand.

* [[TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool Fucking Rachel Tice]].
* Due to Vexusdylan's original channel being inaccessible, ''DSBTInsaniT'', from episode 3 onward, refers to the creator as 'Vexusdylan DA SECOND' (his current account name). This rule is usually enforced by [[PluckyComicRelief Andy]].

* Toys such as GIJoe and the {{Transformers}}, which are marketed for boys, '''are not dolls. They are ACTION FIGURES.''' ''Dolls'' are toys that girls play with, such as {{Barbie}} or PollyPocket.

* [[InsistentTerminology/{{Professional Wrestling}} Professional Wrestling, Not a Bunch of Men Headlocking Each Other for Fun and Profit. It Disgusts the Enterprise's Fans that You Would Call it That.]]

* ''The25thAnnualPutnamCountySpellingBee'': William Barfee constantly reminds Panch and Peretti that his name is always pronounced Bar-''FAY''. There's an accent egue.

* ''BloomCounty'': Opus takes a job as a garbageman, but insists on being called a "waste-management artisan" instead.

** And Doc isn't a doctor. He's a medic. [[hottip:*:He doesn't actually heal you, he just makes you more comfortable while you die.]]

A character constantly corrects a word (''[[SelfDemonstratingArticle fine, if you say it's called a term, then it's called a term]]'') used in their introduction or any speech that otherwise refers to them, but never seems to stop (all right, ''keep'') anyone else from using it. Sometimes this is because they could be called something people see as unflattering or a poor choice of words.

A character constantly corrects a word ([[SelfDemonstratingArticle fine, if you say it's called a term, then it's called a term]]'') used in their introduction or any speech that otherwise refers to them, but never seems to stop (all right, ''keep'') anyone else from using it. Sometimes this is because they could be called something people see as unflattering or a poor choice of words.

A character constantly corrects a word ([[SelfDemonstratingArticle fine, if you say it's called a]] ''[[SelfDemonstratingArticle term]]'', [[SelfDemonstratingArticle then it's called a]] ''[[SelfDemonstratingArticle term]]'') used in their introduction or any speech that otherwise refers to them, but never seems to stop (all right, ''keep'') anyone else from using it. Sometimes this is because they could be called something people see as unflattering or a poor choice of words.

->'''Soap:''' What sort of pub is this then?
->'''Barkeep:''' It's a Samoan pub.
->'''Bacon:''' ...What's that?
->'''Barkeep:''' It's a cocktail. You asked for a cocktail.
->'''Bacon:''' No, I asked you to give me a ''refreshing drink.'' I wasn't expecting a fucking rainforest. You could fall in love with an orangutan in that.
->'''Barkeep:''' You want a pint, go to the pub.
->'''Bacon:''' ''({{Beat}})'' ...I thought this ''was'' a pub.
->'''Barkeep:''' It's a ''Samoan pub''.

** More specifically, Franchise/{{Transformers}} ''[[NonindicativeName do not transform]]'', and you will get in [[BrandNameTakeover big trouble with Hasbro]] if you say they do. They "Convert" from one mode to another, and the difficulty rating [[NonIndicativeDifficulty theoretically]] measures difficulty of "conversion". The reasoning is if Franchise/{{Transformers}} "transform", then [[BrandNameTakeover "Transformers" is just a generic name for the type of toy they are, and thus cannot be preserved as a trademark.]] But if it "converts", then the generic term for transforming robot action figures is "converters", of which Franchise/{{Transformers}} is one of the most successful brands.