Spaw, there was a hysterical column in the Washington Post a few years ago now, about someone's initial encounter with a talking car alarm. I remember the line "so I did what any red-blooded male American would do... I baited it!" - so here's the guy not touching the car while the car howls Don't Touch Me... it was really very funny.

But my nomination would be for "PC" words that already existed but have to be re-invented for the new generation, or something. Like Wellness when we already have Health. Or come to think of it, pretty much the whole PC movement. Sapir-Whorf had nothing on this.