1. Camp
Anyone who knows me knows that I live, breathe, eat, and sleep Batman and when these people want to slide the knife in slow between my ribs they know all they have to do is say the word CAMP and off I go into a state of foaming hysteria. Camp to me is like pornography to United States Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in that I may have trouble defining it but I know it when I see it. The Batman show of the 1960s is considered a camp (gah!!!) masterpiece because of its skewering of the Batman mythos in particular and the conventions of costumed superheroes in general. That show is also the only incarnation of the Batman that I dont claim because that horror has done more to consign comic books and geek culture to the nether realms more than anything else and the word camp was the ferryman that took them there. I hate camp because its used by ironic smartasses who condescend to the emotionally-stunted fan boys who they see as too green to put away the funny books and the video games. People who use the word camp are the ones who write Holy Fill-In-The-Blank whenever a news report about the Caped Crusader crosses over to the mainstream or look for any scent of caricature in a superhero movie and are mad when they cant find it. Theyll say things like ponderous and somber without taking into account that just like some mainstream movies are low comedy as compared to high drama, the same goes with comic book movies despite what some hipster whos only exposure to comic books off the page was a Pop Art-inspired television show from the Swinging Sixties. If cheesy is chewed gum on a sidewalk then camp is fingernails on a blackboard.
Conclusion
Let me say again the problem I have with four out of five of these words is that they are overused in our lexicon. I am a proud geek, nerd, dork, whatever you want to call me and I know if I have an adequate command of the English language then I know my peers do as well. The words Ive listed arent used wrong in anyway (except one) but other words can, should, and need to be used. Be ahead of the curve I implore you, my fellow geeks, not behind it.