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Post by DeadMan9O™ on Dec 12, 2007 11:51:30 GMT -5
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."
"W00t," a hybrid of letters and numbers used by gamers as an exclamation of happiness, topped all other terms in the Springfield 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.
The 2006 pick, "truthiness," also has its roots in pop culture. It was popularized by Comedy Central satirical political commentator Stephen Colbert.
Credit msn.com
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Post by Mike Dell on Dec 12, 2007 11:53:20 GMT -5
....aaaaaand, NOW the world has gone to hell.
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Post by cureforthesickness on Dec 12, 2007 12:00:08 GMT -5
truthiness > w00t
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Post by Tony D Enterprises™ on Dec 12, 2007 12:11:18 GMT -5
No wonder the quality of the world is going down.
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Post by inrogers29 on Dec 12, 2007 12:25:13 GMT -5
lame.
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Post by addam on Dec 12, 2007 12:27:42 GMT -5
laaaaaaaammmmmmmeeeeeeee........this is the reason i hate to play video games online. everyone is intellectually- disabled.
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Post by Revvie® on Dec 12, 2007 12:54:26 GMT -5
w00t!...hehe
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Post by Graze on Dec 12, 2007 13:00:22 GMT -5
....aaaaaand, NOW the world has gone to hell. Pretty much. Sad really. |
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Post by HHH316 on Dec 12, 2007 13:35:01 GMT -5
I dont think I've ever used either word
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Post by bad guy™ on Dec 12, 2007 13:51:56 GMT -5
Couldn't have said it better myself.  |
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Post by -Edge- on Dec 12, 2007 14:43:19 GMT -5
i dont see people use woot..
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Post by kanekilledvince on Dec 12, 2007 14:52:04 GMT -5
Th3s3 wud b th3 sam3 ppl t3lin us that w3r3 kilin da english languge.
dis makes dem d r3t4rds
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Post by Andrew on Dec 12, 2007 15:00:53 GMT -5
Epitomie > w00t
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Post by ruthlessagression on Dec 12, 2007 15:39:39 GMT -5
It looks better without zeros. woot
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Post by Wato Stan Account on Dec 12, 2007 15:50:42 GMT -5
I officially don't trust dictionaries anymore.
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Post by PWC-NYG on Dec 12, 2007 16:14:06 GMT -5
I hate that word, and meh...
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Post by Greg Weinstein on Dec 12, 2007 16:30:11 GMT -5
I have absolutely no idea what that means. |
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Post by vaclav on Dec 12, 2007 16:53:46 GMT -5
meh, i was always more partial to a 'woop' than a 'w00t'
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Post by Death Bear on Dec 12, 2007 16:59:24 GMT -5
I have a shirt that says w00t! on it. I bought it for ten bucks on clearance at Hot Topic before it was word of the day. I guess that gives me indie cred?
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Post by B®ÄУȟ ÏÄÑ on Dec 12, 2007 17:11:04 GMT -5
So is this now in the dictionary?
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