Upload or Download?

With all the explosion of technology in the last 30-or-so years, there has also been an explosion of new words. I feel sorry for teachers who now have to correct essays and decide if the first person present tense of the verb "to twitter" is "I twit" or "I twitter". Let's not even get into the subjunctive....

I always used to be frustrated with typing out e-mail, and I believe it has become standard to now just write email. Is it in Oxford's new dictionary?

Oh, and what about upload and download? When do you use the term?

Originally I was going to write about how I have all these pictures on my digital camera. But, since the cord to plug it in and move the pictures from the camera to my computer is upstairs (Travis was using it to get pictures on his laptop), I haven't transferred the pictures yet. I know this is not uncommon for people to leave pictures on their camera for ages (My mom had pictures on them from just after her last visit to us a year previously). What might be uncommon is that the photos are only a week old and it's driving me NUTS not having them uploaded... or is it downloaded?... ok, available to me on my computer.

Can one use those terms (up-/down-loaded) interchangeably? or is there a true directionality to it? And, is it correct to say I'm downloading a file from the internet? and uploading a file from the internet to my computer? or are both correct?

So, what are your favorite or confusing new terms? I won't limit responses to just technological terms. But, please keep it PG rated... (yes, "hook up" means something different these days. As does "emo" (not a typo, this is not referring to the fuzzy red animal my two-year-old adores) and other terms. If you don't know the meaning of these terms, see if you can ask some teenager. Just be prepared to get blushes and/or rolled eyes.) And if you have the correct conjugation of verbs, that would be much appreciated.

I don't want to sound uneducated* when I discuss blogging or twitting (twittering?) with my friends...

Travis laughed his head off when I pronounced chasm for the first time while reading a book aloud to him. I pronounced that word how it's spelled: ch-a-sm, not how it is suppose to be prounounced: k-a-sm, but that's subject for another post...