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deconstruction

Any words once spoken by Stephen Fry.

irregardless

Conventions, as in "playing with conventions".

Dissonant.

I once used the phrase "onomatopoeically dissonant". I felt so dirty afterwards.

Synecdoche

granddaddy of them all:

postmodern

colloquialism

>>1377962

Subjugation (pun intended)

>>onomatopoeically dissonant

Give me an example.

>>1377980
ooh yeah, that one makes me cringe. i have a friend who uses this one and
>>1377957
this one all the time.

Consternation.

socio-economic

>>1377980
BING! Winner!

>>1377989
At the time, I was referring to the word lugubrious.

superfluous...unless I pronounce it as

super-flew-us depending on whom I'm around

>>1377980
>>1377991
>>1378013

Why the fuck is saying Post-Modernism worse than saying Modernism or Naturalism, or are you all just uneducated?

Allegory

masturbatory

skillset

ergo

enigma

Nigger.

"juxtapose"

UGH.

ISLAMOFASCISM

Fallacious, colloquialism, socialized, stratification, insinuating and plebeian.

bourgeoisie

one

vacuous

>>1378113

Niggardly
Anile

>>1377980
Let's include:
post-postmodern
Post-ironic

asshole

awesome

Fail

discourse
mimesis
dissemination

>>1378198
Meta-Ironic

"thrice"

I don't give a fuck - I use it regularly. Thrice a day, even.

>>1378246
Dude, I know this chick who named her kid Thrice. Shit is so not cash.

>>1378061
proxy

No lie I feel like an asshole whenever I use it. It makes me sound like I know more about indirect warfare and web-traffic than I actually do.

Systematic exploitation of recondite and abstruse polysyllabic linguistic constructions has a multiplicity of results, the first being the nonplussement of the part of the audience, the second being the appearance of faggotry on the part of the orator.

>>1378285
I'm totally copying and saving this. It's going to come in handy again.

>>1378285
WHY DID I UNDERSTAND THAT GIBBERISH!?

>>1378285
I double-dog dare everyone here to say this at a bar the next time someone tries to use a big word.

hipster

>>1378300
I accept your challenge, sir, and gladly so.

>>1378285
I screwed up a little, it should be "on the part of the audience," not "of the part".

"an historic/al"

facetious

and any excessive and unnecessary use of latin phrases in order to sound cool but nobody else knows what the fuck you're saying.

>>1378333
>>1378333

>and any excessive and unnecessary use of latin phrases in order to sound cool but nobody else knows what the fuck you're saying.

You mean such as when it is the conditio sine qua non of my magnum opus to exclude you as a persona non grata?

CARPE DIEM!

herp

derp

tier

/b/ro

Lacanian

Zeitgeist

If you pronounce paradigm properly it's even more asshole points. (Digm is really pronounced as DIM not DIME. Protip for people who want to sound extra pretentious.)

>>1378333
>"an historic/al"
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Gets on my nerves like a bee-yatch, esp. since everyone around me only does it to trip me up or try and look clever in front of me because I'm 'the language guy'
>>1378339
Oh lawdy, why do I know what that all means? Stupid fucking friends trying to look clever argh
>>1378285
That's some infuriatingly sesquipedalian loquaciousness; I'm certainly going to use it later in a social setting just to be a prick.

>>1378416
>>1378333
>"an historic/al"
then they follow it up with "it's grammatically correct"

>>1378432
You don't even know how angry it makes me. Fuck. FUUUCK. THESE MOTHERFUCKERS COMING OVER HERE SPOUTING THEIR 'LOL ITS GRAMATICALLY CORRECT' bullshit (HOLY FUCK DOUBLE CAPS) AND TRYING TO ASSERT THEIR LINGUISTIC DOMINANCE WHEREAS THEY ARE CCLEARLY TRYHARD FAGGOTS, fuck IT MAKES ME RAGE

>>1378472
I KNOW BRO

Ostensibly.

presupposing

Supposeably.

Not a word, but I absolutely fucking hate the phrase "fair enough". It's like, you can't just say "you're right, I'm wrong". What you just said is fair /enough/. What you said just barely scratches by some unspoken standard.

toolkit

>>1377982
>>1377986
>>1377998
>>1378048

How are these bad? They're just normal, long words that describe a concept, not some wishy-washy bullshit like 'postmodern' or 'deconstruction'

>>1378392
This.

>>1377949
'rape'

when referring to weekends activities

ideology, postmodern, superstructure, power, narrative, discourse, meme, simulacra, rhizome.those might have made sense in the original context but were abused through misuse by absolue dimwits.

also, all german words - ersatz, the dasein, zeitgeist, the gemeinschaft/the gesellschaft, lebenswelt etc. as those are mostly used by scatterbrained idiots.

Asshole :3

>>1378484
I generally say that phrase when someone either refuses to consider that they may be wrong or they're completely positive I should share their opinion when I am unconvinced. It certainly doesn't have to mean someone's right, you just don't want to argue about it

unless used as a legal term or to describe a near/actual genocide:

persecution.

That word has been thrown around by whiners everywhere being indignant about anything.

meta-narrative

>>1378621
"Meta" anything.

Dichotomy.

>>1378068
i was going to say this

but I'll also chip in with hegemony

>mfw most of these words are good words, and you are all just haters.

"mythopoeic"

>>1378045
because i'm hating on pomo (strictly in philosophy). duh

>>1378068
i love that word.

But I never find a sentence to use it correctly

>>1377960
AGREED

>>1378716
How about my ass juxtaposes your face?

>>1378761
they are too similar to be a true juxtaposition

Micro & macrocosm. Also, metaphysical.

Auspice. No one Ihave ever said it to knows what it means.

>>1378045
>>1378045
>>1378045
>>1378045
>>1378045

There is no postmodern you cunt! Fucking define modernism first!

>>1378795

According to 'The Postmodern Condition' by Lyotard, Postmodernism can be defined as a general incredulity to metanarratives.

>>1378800
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Arbitrary

>>1378795
Is this a joke?

>>1378806
Maybe.

my problem with postmodern the word is that it's a continental-ish word. you don't name a philosophical position by some kind time period like you'd do with art or whatever. presumptuous, metaphysically promiscuous and just plain untidy.

stuff like naturalism, empiricism, etc are perfectly informative and precise.

>>1378765
Then I congratulate you on your beautifully firm face.

>>1378817
>precise
Value judgements ahoy.

>>1378820
not really. the words actually only seek to describe very particular and narrow ideas/contentions, unlike pomo which seeks to describe, or indeed, construct, a whole philosophical epoch.

Dude glenn branca is so meta.
"Meta"
meta
meta
meta
meta
meta meta

pro-active

agency.

Sit down with any liberal arts academic egghead and you'll hear this word pop out within minutes. Use of this word tells me that you have nothing important to say.

Mimesis,
Verissimilitude,
In medias res.

>>1378919
Hey, I understand your pain--but agency is a nice word if you ask me--it is what people really mean when they say "individuality" "individual rights" "freedom" or other words like that. To me it clears things up, but yeah I agree with you if someone uses more than say 3 times in the same sequence.

espouse.

Art
Artsy
Any -ism word that is not in common usage.

Wow, you guys are way too word-prejudiced. I don't see why. Honestly its not a matter of what words people use that make me think they're an asshole, its generally the use they put them too.

>>1378825
>>1378817
Also postmodernism is not named after a time period, its named for its relation as a rejection of another philosophical/artistic movement "modernism" it comes after "modernism", so it is post"modern". The post implying a reaction to modernism rather than simple temporal succession.

>>1378938
I don't really think it is a reaction to modernism, but a new generation of modernism--or, rather, a certain progression of modernism where a mirror was put in front of the mirror. Modernist here.

>>1378942
Hmmm, I disagree.

>>1378938
as i've said, it's a continental word, self referential and presumptuous

>>1378949
ugh, you partisan! are you saying that words should not somehow be self-signifying?

transgressive

ITT: big wurdz are uh ASSHOLE

middlebrow

Schadenfreude

Belgian here, I hate it when my professors use it since we have a dutch word for it.

>>1378825
>deny it's a value judgement
>elaborate and define it based on other value judgements
You best go see a doctor about that bullet you put in your foot.

>>1378981
What's that?

>>1378986
Leedvermaak

>>1378988
How do you feel about ennuyeux/ennui?

glib

preposterous... made "cool" by [[sadfucks/modern television]]

>>1378991
The same way, why use it if there's a decent word for it in dutch.

>>1379004
well mainly because dutch sounds like chattering of squirrels with a brain disease.

>>1379006
Nope, it doesn't.

>>1379021
Yes it does.

>>1379004
Because Belgian French. Bloody Walloons.

>>1379034
Ever noticed how "Wallonia" sounds like it's probably the gayest country on earth.

>>1379047
This is true...

>>1379047
>>1379049
You are now aware their flag has a cock on it.

>>1378952
i'm saying it's not understandable by outsiders.
>>1378984
go fuck yourself idiot.

>>1379079
So you've had enough of me fucking you and your shitty arguments?

intolerant