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w00t is 3rd Favorite Non-Dictionary Word
Jay writes "The word has been getting out apparently. No longer just a word for gamers, 'woot' now appears as #3 in Merriam-Webster's What's Your Favorite Word (That's Not in the Dictionary)? contest. It was beaten out by ginormous and confuzzled."
All of those words in the list look perfectly cromulent to me.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
W00t!!!!
"why don't you just slip into something more comfortable...like a coma!"
I'm confuzled as to how w00t didn't get first place. I don't see any of the other words -- combined -- as often as w00t, at least when I'm chillaxing with my friends. I think they mad a ginormous mistake.
So you're saying that you are confuzzled by the use of the word confuzzle?
"why don't you just slip into something more comfortable...like a coma!"
Woot, While I was chillaxing with my peeps, avoiding eating the snirt. We were phoncrastinating until my buddy John called. So I pwned him by hanging up after discussing the fact that i'm so confuzzled about the ginormous lack of english comprehension!
I use w00t way more then I use ginormous or confuzzled. In fact, I think that both of those other words are dumbpendous.
Look out honey cause I'm usin' technology
Ain't got time to make no apologies
Geeks have lots of words that noone else uses. "Stereochemistry, Hexadecimal, Defrag"
We don't need to make stuff up to be misunderstood.
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
or stile?
as in "That chick's ass is so stile!"
(Duke, Marty, and Jay are playing scrabble)
Duke - Kwizibyck.
Marty - That's not a word.
Duke - Get Webster on the phone. Noah, how ya doing? It's Duke. How much would it cost to make kwizibyck a word? I don't know what it means. Uhh, how about a big problem? Great. How 'bout that other word I invented, Dukelicious? No one's using it? What a Duketastrophy!
I remember when l33t sp34k was underground. Damn you Webster.
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Dude i don't think you can critiment the spolling of non existant werdz
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It's a perfectly cromulent word.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." -- Hanlon's Razor
Bush'd
n00b should too!
Nah. n00b hasn't been around long enough...
Slashdotted is definitely my least favorite verb. Who would ever want such a horrendous thing occur to them :o
Yes, because nothing's more unforgivable then misspelling a fake word.
The Internet is generally stupid
"Ginormous?" "ESPN-onage"?
Rich Hall must be rolling in his grave right now. That is, if he's dead.
If not, surely his career is rolling in its grave...
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Try these obscure new slang words on for size:
w00t > Jubilation!
thx > Gratitude!
gj > Felicitations!
Now you get to be different from the mainstream once again.
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I'd like to thank all the people who helped me get where I am today, all the script kiddies, my coworkers, O'Reilly & Associates, Linus Torvolds for making Linux, Bill Gates for making Windows, and all the really smart people out there at MIT for making X11.
We've come along way from Athena widgets, nobody in their right mind uses Motif anymore, and everything is a beautiful drab KDE and Gnome gray. We've had SCO try to poison our spirits, but that which does not kill you only makes you stronger.
Way to go folks. You've done well. (note to mods: this is funny, look at my uid)
da w00t. mtfnpy?
W00t is acceptable to say in real life conversations imo... However saying "lol" in real life is possibly the most embarrasing thing ever. Especially since everyone actually knows what it means, so you can't fob it off as just a random noise anymore.
If THAT was the origin, than it would be spelled "WPOT" for We Pwn the Other Team.
In Repressive Burma, it's not just your connection that dies. slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=314547&cid=20819199
"Geeks have lots of words that noone else uses. "Stereochemistry, Hexadecimal, Defrag"
They also don't know how to spell fuck.
"Derp de derp."
This lady at work keeps using ginormous in meetings and everytime she does, I have to remind myself that stabbing her in the face probably isn't the best way to handle my rage.
I fucking hate that word...
Not anymore you arent...
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
You missed the ever important:
bj > Fellatitations!
Woot was invented by pencil-and-paper gamers, it wasn't originally oline speak. It's first use was a pleased exlamtion of "what?!?" through a mouthfull of Cheetos, and sort of caught on.
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Eh? The Jargon File would disagree - see the entry for w00t
"An interjection similar to "Yay!", as in: "w00t!!! I just got a raise!" Often used for small victories the speaker dies not expect to be of special interest to anyone else. Some claim this is a bastardization of "root", the highest level of access to a system (particularly UNIX), originated by script kiddies as a 133tspeak equivalent of "root", and said as an exclamation upon gaining root access. Others claim it originated in the Everquest multiplayer game as an abbreviation of "wonderful loot". Still other claim it on originated on IRC as the "Ewok victory cheer"] Adj. w00table has the sense of "cool" or "nifty". This is one of the few leet-speak coinages to have crossed over into non-ironic use among hackers."
Orafucked: Verb. When someone screws you over so bad that it feels like they raped your every orifice.
Isn't that when the Oracle database goes down and you're the DBA?
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