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->"''It would seem that, as used, the word 'Fascism' is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox hunting, bullfighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley's broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else."''
-->--'''George Orwell'''

* EightBitTheatre: Temple's a kind of castle. Everyone in the world knows that. [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2008/04/24/episode-983-a-clear-goal/ It's in the Sardapedia]].

* Jonah Goldberg's ''Liberal Fascism'' is a book dedicated to redefining fascism as left-wing. He fails history forever.

** Alternately, he might have been using "religious" to mean "about religion" rather than "expressing belief in religion". That's not exactly the same as the usual meaning of the word "religious", but it's probably too close for this trope. "I, Robot" alone includes a story where hyperspace passed through the afterlife (which only parodically resembled the afterlife of any popular religions) and another where robots worshiped the hardware they maintain like a god.
** Hyperspace didn't "pass through" the afterlife, it was that in order to pass through hyperspace a human being ceases to exist briefly. This state is similar enough to being truly DEAD that it fucks up some powerful robot minds doing the calculations on how to make a functional hyperspace drive (Asimov's Robots cannot by action or inaction allow a human being to come to harm). This trope actually applies particularly well to this short story as the solution to the problem involves very carefully instructing a robotic mind on how to define and consider "death" while working on the necessary calculations.
*** Unfortunately, they went a ''little'' too far, and gave the robotic mind a bit of a snap.

** Similarly, if you ask people in Europe what "right" and "left" mean, you'll get a vastly different answer than someone from the United States -- where "right" would be Europe's "far right" and "left" would be Europe's "center right".

** The USA was "Samland," the USSR "Joedom," and Israel "israel."

* Jonah Goldberg's ''Liberal Fascism'' is a book dedicated to redefining fascism as left-wing. He fails history forever.

* What is meant by "{{Geek}}" and "{{Nerd}}", and their differences(or lack thereof) differs widely for whoever uses the words.

* While they still referred "princess" as a female authority figure that is either the daughter of a king or queen or the husband of a prince, starting in 1985 Disney actually came up with their own definiton of that same word: a female authority figure that is either the daughter of a king or queen or the husband of a prince, has animals for companions, is the star of a musical, and must be a financial success.

** Similarly, the gaming definition of "originality" means that games that are merely the same genre sharing mechanics aren't original (''ModernWarfare'' and its successors and imitators), yet another game that's ostensibly similar ''is'' "original", (''{{Battlefield}} Bad Company'' and ''3''). This has no relation to how many sequels or imitators the game has, either; there are many Metroidvania games, or those riffing on ''SuperMarioBros'', such as ''SuperMeatBoy'', that are called "original". Yet when changes gamers don't like are added to a series, such as the controversial ''DMC: DevilMayCry", those same gamers will promptly complain the series is RuinedForever.

* While they still referred "princess" as a female authority figure that is either the daughter of a king or queen or the husband of a prince, starting in 1985 Disney actually came up with their own definiton of that same word: a female authority figure that is either the daughter of a king or queen or the husband of a prince, has animals for companions, is the star of a musical, and must be a financial success. Guess which film came out in 1985 that had this definition changed, and who was consequently included despite not being one, and who was excluded despite actually being one!

-->--'''[[AliceInWonderland Through the Looking Glass]]'''

* Creationists have a surprisingly large Personal Dictionary that contains definitions you'd never find in a peer-reviewed scientific publication. And their use of more common words is just as abysmal. As IsaacAsimov put it: "Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night."

* The only people who seem to view Scientology as an actual religion are the Scientologists themselves.

* [[YouFailBiologyForever Creationists]] have a surprisingly large Personal Dictionary that contains definitions you'd never find in a peer-reviewed scientific publication. And their use of more common words is just as abysmal. As IsaacAsimov put it: "Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night."

* Jonah Goldberg's ''Liberal Fascism'' is a book dedicated to redefining fascism as left-wing. He fails history forever.

* [[MadMathematician Paul Erdős]], though it was simply his idiosyncratic word choice rather than an attempt to obfusicate matters. For a sampling:

* Jonah Goldberg's ''Liberal Fascism'' is a book dedicated to redefining fascism as left-wing. YouFailHistoryForever.

* ''{{Futurama}}'': 'Odelay' ''is'' a word! Just look it up in the Becktionary!
** No, the ''rhyming'' Becktionary!