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Points: 1563 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2015 at 14:55
"To sum things up" always makes me cringe for some reason when people use it while speaking a point or writing a paper. 
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Points: 5898 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2015 at 13:57
Getting seriously: I mostly hate words and terms that are coined to describe political ideologies by their opponents, half because they're almost inevitably used as thought-terminating clichés utilized to describe a standpoint as wrong without explaining why in further detail. It doesn't just refer to more obvious cases, though. When was the last time you heard a follower of the Frankfurt School of Marxist sociology self-identify as "Cultural Marxist" or a follower of the Chicago School libertarian economics self-identify as "neo-liberal"?

Have you ever witnessed a single discussion that got more productive after one of the participants accused the other of being too "politically correct", let alone a "social justice warrior" or "cryptofascist"? That kind of terminology's what in the philosophical blogosphere referred to as "ideological applause lights" or perhaps more damningly "rhetorical super-weapons".
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Points: 8856 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2015 at 13:51
"pretentious"
"fandom"
"Who are we to say... ?"
Finally, badly coined and redefined terms, the overuse of words such that they lose whatever meaning they had previously, and bad-arguments-turned-slogans, all of which typifies activism, sadly.
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Points: 554 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2015 at 13:43
Progressive (honestly).
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2015 at 13:40
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Points: 5319 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2015 at 13:39
because folks here are so damn stuck on crap and a "style", that they have lost the ability to even bother listening to anything else.........
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2015 at 13:32
"binge watching"

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Points: 9319 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2015 at 13:19
Words I don't particularly care for (I don't know why)...
prequel
genre

Phrase that I cannot stand...
"My bad."
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Points: 5898 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2015 at 13:00
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

preponing (as in the opposite of postponing)


The phrase instead reminds me of that redhead on That 70s Show.
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Points: 20030 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2015 at 12:26
There's plenty of phrases at work that get on my nerves -

"scope creep"
"reaching out"
preponing (as in the opposite of postponing)
and the best one ever which I fortunately only heard once - "we're having a stir fry in the strategy wok".
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Points: 115 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2015 at 12:20
I get totally cheesed by word and phrase trends. The biggie that's currently making the rounds:

It is what it is

A completely valueless thing to say, in the same light-poetic sphere as "at the end of the day." So annoying.
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