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| Wildcard23 |
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Registered Member #514
Joined: Wed Dec 20 2006, 06:33AMPosts: 1067 |
Just in case you haven't heard about this yet. Enjoy. Taken from Yahoo News... -[link]- SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Expect cheers among hardcore online game enthusiasts when they learn Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year. Or, more accurately, expect them to "w00t." ADVERTISEMENT "W00t," a hybrid of letters and numbers used by gamers as an exclamation of happiness or triumph, topped all other terms in the Springfield-based dictionary publisher's online poll for the word that best sums up 2007. Merriam-Webster's president, John Morse, said "w00t" was an ideal choice because it blends whimsy and new technology. "It shows a really interesting thing that's going on in language. It's a term that's arrived only because we're now communicating electronically with each other," Morse said. Gamers commonly substitute numbers and symbols for the letters they resemble, Morse says, creating what they call "l33t speak" — that's "leet" when spoken, short for "elite" to the rest of the world. For technophobes, the word also is familiar from the 1990 movie "Pretty Woman," in which Julia Roberts startles her date's upper-crust friends with a hearty "Woot, woot, woot!" at a polo match. Purists of "l33t speak" often substitute a "7" for the final "t," expressing a "w007" of victory — an "in your face" of sorts — when they defeat an online gaming opponent. "W00t" was among 20 nominees in a list of the most-searched words in Merriam-Webster's online dictionary and most frequently submitted terms from users of its "open dictionary." The choice did not make Allan Metcalf, executive secretary of the American Dialect Society, say "w00t." "It's amusing, but it's limited to a small community and unlikely to spread and unlikely to last," said Metcalf, an English professor at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Ill. The 2006 pick, "truthiness," also has its roots in pop culture. It was popularized by Comedy Central satirical political commentator Stephen Colbert. Some also-rans in the 2007 list: the use of "facebook" as a verb to signify using the Web site by that name; nuanced terms such as "quixotic," "hypocrite" and "conundrum"; and "blamestorm," a meeting in which mistakes are aired, fingers are pointed and much discomfort is had by all. Edited Wed Dec 12 2007, 01:32PM |
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Registered Member #507
Joined: Thu Dec 14 2006, 01:42PMPosts: 539 |
YES!!! YES!!! i voted for that  haha
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| NoSkill |
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Sir
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Joined: Tue Oct 10 2006, 01:13PM Posts: 2628 |
WOO MASSACHUSETTS IN THE HOUSE BITCHES! | ||
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| slick |
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Joined: Tue Oct 02 2007, 07:21PMPosts: 663 |
Lol funny article REALLY FUNNY!!!!!!!!!! OMFG!!!! W007!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (otherwise pronounced Double O Seven  )In any case we must not forget about our schools -[link]- !!! |
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| emerican |
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Joined: Tue Mar 07 2006, 12:07PMPosts: 3146 |
wrote ... "It shows a really interesting thing that's going on in language. It's a term that's arrived only because we're now communicating electronically with each other," Morse said. haha i found that pretty ironic yeah i saw that on the news last night and as you can guess i was like W00T!!! |
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| NoSkill |
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Sir
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Joined: Tue Oct 10 2006, 01:13PM Posts: 2628 |
w00t isn't even a word though... like why did they come up with w00t? is it a knock off of woo-hoo? What about GG, gl hf, kthxbai or Pwned. When Pwned makes the dictionary I'll be thilled. |
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The All-Cum Diet
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Joined: Mon Dec 05 2005, 04:55PM Posts: 1888 |
I heard about this on the radio this morning. I had to lol. |
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Ruler of all that is pocky
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Joined: Mon Nov 28 2005, 11:17PM Posts: 704 |
NoSkill wrote ... w00t isn't even a word though... like why did they come up with w00t? is it a knock off of woo-hoo? What about GG, gl hf, kthxbai or Pwned. When Pwned makes the dictionary I'll be thilled. You might want to check a well up to date dictionary pwned might be in it. Seriously though all the rule of what were word went out the window the second they let aint in the dictionary. Now they put all kinds of slang in the dictionary the only thing your unlikely to find would be curse words which I find hilarious. as for gg, gl, hf, kthxbai I doubt they will make the grade since they are just abrivations and words jammed together. Edited Wed Dec 12 2007, 09:23PM |
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Registered Member #543
Joined: Sun Jan 21 2007, 06:33AMPosts: 497 |
WOOT! Lol!! | ||
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