Too many people misunderstand the title of the popular 2010 movie Inception. One of the film's most memorable features was the idea of dreams occurring within dreams, and people assume that that concept is called "inception". So, whenever they see something nested inside another instance of itself, they'll shout "[thing]-ception!" and feel clever about themselves. They're wrong.

In the film, "inception" is the act of planting a thought into someone's head in a way that the person believes it was their own original thought. Inception itself has virtually nothing to do with dreams within dreams.

So, if you slice open a bell pepper and find a smaller bell pepper inside it, don't call it "pepper-ception". You're making a fool of yourself. Call it "nested peppers" or "pepper recursion" or "Matryoshka peppers" or "concentric" or "fractal" or something that at least has anything to do with what you're talking about.

I wish I could use inception on these people to get them to quit abusing the term.

EDIT: Guys, I understand how language shifts and new terms are formed. I understand that people speak in pop culture references. I just don't like this particular case, which is why I'm writing about it here. And despite what some of you are saying, there are definitely people out there who think that the word inception literally means recursion. I've heard people use the word in that way having never watched the film.