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Poll: What Internet slang are you most annoyed by?
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#12Overused words of 2012/2013: Awesome - "We believe in building awesome products that make your life better." Passionate - "We are passionate about bringing 3D advertising to the web." Obsessed - "I am obsessed with brunch." I'm not dissing excited people, just wishing more people would use more creative words.
everyone's favorite - synergy
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#13MOOC
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#14"relevant xkcd" (link to xkcd comic we have all read before)
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#15On HN I try to avoid contractions[1] and initialisms. I know that many people reading do not have have English as a first language.
[1] Apart from the very common, such as "don't" or "can't" etc.
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#16"epic" - this. The use of the word epic makes me want to loose my mind. lol. "This burrito is so epic it should've been in Beowulf," said nobody ever. tl;dr stop using that word! Besides—ahem—epic overuse of the word 'epic,' my most loathed turn of phrase is 'The X that is Y'. For example, "the failure that is Microsoft". Stop saying this, nerds! You're not being clever!
Nicely done, sir.
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#17Hack
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#18YOLO.
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#19I know these are not not technically slang, but
"At the end of the day, . . ." and
"I see what you did there."
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#20Hack
To be fair, I love and adore hacker culture. However "hack" and "hacker" have already become so inundated with misuse as to be nearly meaningless. "Growth hacker" "hack the industry" recruitment letters, etc.