w00t - a brand new word to misspell heer at GB!
It will be a h00t to see the new word w00t misspelled hear along with heer and thair
and everywere!
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Massachusetts-based Merriam-Webster Inc. said "w00t" -- typically spelled with two zeros -- reflects a new direction in the American language led by a generation raised on video games and cell phone text-messaging.
It's like saying "yay," the dictionary said.
"It could be after a triumph or for no reason at all," Merriam-Webster said.
Visitors to Merriam-Webster's Web site were invited to vote for one of 20 words and phrases culled from the most frequently looked-up words on the site and submitted by readers.
Runner-up was "facebook" as a new verb meaning to add someone to a list of friends on the Web site Facebook.com or to search for people on the social networking site.
I find this amusing, but also at the same time mildly concerning. It's fine for casual writing, but I hope that internet shorthand for other words doesn't (don't) make it into formal writing any time soon.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/071212/odds/odd_language_dc
and everywere!
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Massachusetts-based Merriam-Webster Inc. said "w00t" -- typically spelled with two zeros -- reflects a new direction in the American language led by a generation raised on video games and cell phone text-messaging.
It's like saying "yay," the dictionary said.
"It could be after a triumph or for no reason at all," Merriam-Webster said.
Visitors to Merriam-Webster's Web site were invited to vote for one of 20 words and phrases culled from the most frequently looked-up words on the site and submitted by readers.
Runner-up was "facebook" as a new verb meaning to add someone to a list of friends on the Web site Facebook.com or to search for people on the social networking site.
I find this amusing, but also at the same time mildly concerning. It's fine for casual writing, but I hope that internet shorthand for other words doesn't (don't) make it into formal writing any time soon.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/071212/odds/odd_language_dc
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Great,......more words that I don't understand!
Edit: Zip,.......how many times are you gonna edit that post![:D]0 -
Never hear of it. Whatever they added after 1990 is lost on me. Can't teach an old dog new tricks. 0 -
Zip, if you could sit in on a conversation in "English?" two hundred years from now, you would probably understand about as much as George Washington would if he could sit in on a conversation in "English?" today. [:D] 0 -
whats real funny is i heard this on bob and tom Friday, and for some reason zip came to mind, i guess because your a h00t 0 -
Dud3. |337'5 n07 7h4+ h4rd 0nc3 y0u 63+ +3h h4n6 0f 1+!
w00+!
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lawl joo pplz dnt kno ths stf yt? woot. lawlz. pwnt
AKA:
haha, you people dont know this stuff yet? haha. i win.0 -
quote:helicopter_pilot:
Dud3. |337'5 n07 7h4+ h4rd 0nc3 y0u 63+ +3h h4n6 0f 1+!
w00+!
Jacob2008 Posted - 12/15/2007 : 7:24:59 PM
lawl joo pplz dnt kno ths stf yt? woot. lawlz. pwnt
AKA:
haha, you people dont know this stuff yet? haha. i win.
Damn, James. Somehow I feel a LOT older now than I did this morning when I woke up!
Know what I mean???
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quote:Originally posted by zipperzap
quote:helicopter_pilot:
Dud3. |337'5 n07 7h4+ h4rd 0nc3 y0u 63+ +3h h4n6 0f 1+!
w00+!
Jacob2008 Posted - 12/15/2007 : 7:24:59 PM
lawl joo pplz dnt kno ths stf yt? woot. lawlz. pwnt
AKA:
haha, you people dont know this stuff yet? haha. i win.
Damn, James. Somehow I feel a LOT older now than I did this morning when I woke up!
Know what I mean???
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yu r 01|)3R?0 -
quote:Originally posted by zipperzap
Damn, James. Somehow I feel a LOT older now than I did this morning when I woke up!
Know what I mean???
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Yeah, I never learned to communicate either. [:D]
Forget about George Washington, I don't understand the language. [:D] [:D] [:D]0
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