This is the geek equivalent of corporate buzzwords. Lots of communities do this and it comes and goes in fads. Listen to political commentators. For them, th

This is the geek equivalent of corporate buzzwords. Lots of communities do this and it comes and goes in fads. Listen to political commentators. For them, the trendy thing is to start sentences with "Look,..." For tech people giving talks on stages, it's looking and sounding as much like Steve Jobs as possible. Pilots, Chuck Yeager. In hip hop, it's "Son,..." The unifying theme and the reason these things feel obnoxious is that they all attempt to put the speaker in an implicit position of superiority. It's unoriginal, trite, and boring. It's like using lots of swear words. It's what's happens when writers don't venture outside insular communities.