What are the current useless terms in this "audio world"

It’s sounds like the day it was recorded. Who the hell was there that day. I guarantee most are not old enough to have attended the recording or even have been invited to. Talking about the analog days. 

@millercarbon  Nope, when I hear the word salad, it means to me a mixture of various foods, generally cold and generally food in small size pieces.  It could be a fruit salad, vegetable salad, tuna salad, chicken salad, potato salad, etc.  Not necessarily involving a vegetable (fruit) or predominantly involving a vegetable (tuna/chicken).

@millercarbon When I hear Electrician, I think of a licensed and certified person who can legally work with electrical components, dealing with electricity    
When I hear Professional, I think of someone with a professional education degree first, a doctorate for example    
When I hear that someone ran or run a business, I think of an entrepreneur, for profit, providing a service or product.    

Some words evoke immediate images and are not difficult to assess.

Intimate

@millercarbon -- I've auditioned every car I ever bought. They call it a test drive. It's always nice to know if the seat is comfortable, you can see out of it, and if the controls...as they used to say...fall readily to hand.