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Post by L Roebuck on Dec 14, 2007 9:09:18 GMT -5
"W00t!" LOL, you've just said Merriam-Webster's word of the year! ;D 'W00t' selected as Word of the Year Wired "The 'vast majority' of voters chose 'woot,' which MWO defines as an interjection expressing joy (it could be after a triumph, or for no reason at all); similar in use to the word 'yay'...This doesn't meant that 'woot' will ever find its way into the print version of the Merriam-Webster dictionary, but it ups the odds a bit. Today 'woot,' tomorrow 'pwnd'! " Full Text
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Post by Brian Roebuck on Dec 14, 2007 19:20:22 GMT -5
W00t indeed! I think it is a good expressive word as opposed to some of the internet jargon I have come in contact with. ie "L88t HaX0r" and such bizarre ascii incarnations that have specialized meanings and audiences. I can live with W00t but not most of the other stuff - so far anyhow...  |
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Post by L Roebuck on Dec 14, 2007 19:39:30 GMT -5
W00t indeed! I can live with W00t but not most of the other stuff - so far anyhow... How about blamestorm or sardoodledom?  Both made the Top 10 New Words of the Year in the Merriam-Webster's Dictionary.  ;D |
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Post by Azurerana on Dec 14, 2007 21:10:48 GMT -5
I find it unendingly amazing that the same people who could not/would not learn another legitimate earth language (French, German, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Serb, Croatian, Swahili, Arabic) have the ingenuity and time to become the slasher/inventors of TechnoEnglish which seems to follow no known grammar except that of speedwriting under the influence of acid and booze--concurrently.
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Post by kenredux on Dec 15, 2007 9:37:53 GMT -5
I find it unendingly amazing that the same people who could not/would not learn another legitimate earth language (French, German, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Serb, Croatian, Swahili, Arabic) have the ingenuity and time to become the slasher/inventors of TechnoEnglish which seems to follow no known grammar except that of speedwriting under the influence of acid and booze--concurrently. Maybeso, Azurea, but even more amazingly unended is the accelerated trend in youthspeak towards the indefinite. As in most nonce terms today any exacting meaning of the word "w00t" is a detriment to that word's main function which is simply to identify and solidify the social in-group. Merriam -Webster wants to be a part of that in-group.  www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=woot |
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Post by Brad Tipton on Dec 15, 2007 12:38:01 GMT -5
Internet, Blackberries, text messaging, blogs, etc all continue to flush our society's rapidly devolving language further down the toilet. If George Orwell were here to witness this evolution of "Newspeak" that has rapidly infected our eerily similair tangible version of his fictional world, he might be inclined to claim "1984" as prophesy.
In the beginning the acronyms were a hassle to learn, but I managed to learn the common ones. (ROFL, LOL, BTW) Now you literally must possess a dictionary of internet-speak just to communicate with young people.
The messages my younger brother sends me, filled with so many acronyms and abreviations, are so ridiculously uncomprehendible that I have to GooGLE half the message to understand it. Now these terms are dictionary material......wow.
Example of our future of communications.
IMHO, B4 we :x, we will live n a world where every 1 writes like this b/c it is 2 inconvienient or 2 boner 2 comm in proper English ne more. AAR, peeps like me will B incapable of comm w/ the youth of the world b/c I refuse to comm n this manner.
IMHO, comm like this is boner dude. TTYL. Ur BFF Brad. ROFL!
WAR is PEACE
FREEDOM is SLAVERY
IGNORANCE is STRENGTH
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Post by kenredux on Dec 15, 2007 14:39:05 GMT -5
The messages my younger brother sends me, filled with so many acronyms and abreviations, are so ridiculously uncomprehendible that I have to GooGLE half the message to understand it. Now these terms are dictionary material......wow. Uh, Brad, I, like, think that you, uh, made a mistake. When you said "wow" didn't you mean "w00t" ? |
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Post by Brad Tipton on Dec 15, 2007 15:18:51 GMT -5
Uh, Brad, I, like, think that you, uh, made a mistake. When you said "wow" didn't you mean "w00t" ? Ken, I believe the acronym ROFL would be an appropriate response. ;D |
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Post by Azurerana on Dec 15, 2007 15:35:24 GMT -5
The funny part about the whole Netspeak thing is STOP They don't know it, but they are reinventing one form of written Hebrew combined with telegraphic English STOP
In a recent church bulletin, the padre was trying to appeal to the youth. The headline read: "Cooking 4 Capuchins". Now, what he really meant was they were looking for volunteers to furnish homecooked meals for four of his brother priests of the Capuchin order of monks. But it was unclear whether the Capuchins were the beneficiaries, or the meal itself, or if he was talking about monks or monkeys.
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Post by Brian Roebuck on Dec 15, 2007 16:02:56 GMT -5
One of the first meanings of this word apparently is given below: ( Ref: Urban Dictionary ) Actually, the word woot is much older than EQ or 80s hacker lingo. It is a middle english word meaning "know" or "knew."
Verrily, Sir Nag. I woot his uncle, Barnabas.Perhaps all ye lads and lasses of days present woot a wee bit more than we think!  |
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Post by kenredux on Dec 16, 2007 8:52:54 GMT -5
Just so, Dr. Beaner. The indefinate nature of "w00t" makes it user friendly. As in... W00t! I w00ted the lottery. W00t you bro! Get your own w00t. Dis w00t be foe my whammy mammy. W00t ! W00t !  |
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Post by madratdan on Dec 16, 2007 10:26:49 GMT -5
I wOOt...ed once..........it wasn't pretty. ;D
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