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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've heard w00t of course, and ginormous, but where are people using the term "confuzzled"?
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.
n00b should too!
Obviously these words haven't been included in the mainline dictionary, but its an increasing trend for modern slang and shortened terms to enter the dictionary. Whether such words should be included in dictionaries, which are important reference works is subjective, but I feel there is a danger that as more words that are subject to current conditions are added, dictionaries will have to become more dynamic and possibly lead to faster evolution of the language.
Business Voyeur
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!
Fugly, (Fuh-glee): adj The inherant nature of someone to be F*cking Ugly. Usage, generally at bars, after a few drinks, but before the beer-goggles kick in.
My other favorite is Gigantor, that being a person (there was someone in particular) who s so huge that they have developed a Godzilla like reputation, and the ablity to block sunlight. Or in the case of this person break concrete steps while walking up them.
Like arts? Like cheesy little Indie mags? Check out www.artwerkmag.com, and don't laugh at the bad coding please.
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
Toxic Sludge is good for you
I am feeling bitter today
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.
(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.
Insert witty Slashdot sig here.
Dictionaries are supposed to be descriptive and not proscriptive, so if these words are used so much, why are they NOT in the dictionary? A recent example of this would be the alternate pronounciaton of nuclear as "nookyoulure." Stupid as hell, yes, but it's in the dictionary.
Quid festinatio swallonis est aetherfuga inonusti?
Africus aut Europaeus?
"pwnt", "noob", "frood", and "haxor"?
Why is it that when you believe something it's an opinion, but when I believe something it's a manifesto?
Famous Last Words: "hmm...wikipedia says it's edible"
...automagically?
Circumcision is child abuse.
The non-dictionary word of the moment in the UK is Chav - or at least it isn't in the Oxford Dictionary yet, although it might be tomorrow.
Bush'd
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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This is my SIG. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
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.
3. woot (interj): an exclamation of joy or excitement
If I'm not mistaken woot is the abbrivation for We Own the Other Team, and was introduced with multiplayer games.
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
The word "woot" (also; "w00t") has been said to be an acronym, not just a word, meaning:
We Own the Other Team
- Agilo
(Just visualise it: all the packets on both Internets all come together to chant "Speech! Speech! Speech!". Aaahhh.)
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?
You're right, it isn't redundant.
Unfortunately it isn't funny either.
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.
Gamers, not geeks(Though most gamers assume they are geeks because they are fat and greesy) need new words. w00t was never a geek word, from day one it was "hey misunderstand me please"-slang. Geeks use words simpelminded people don't know of. And the people whining about Aim'girl stealing their slang should shape up and come to the conclusion that playing CounterStrike 24/5 doesn't make you good at computers. And ofcause stop trying to impress all the Aim'girlhotties(or fatties) with all their mighty geekslang.
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/ kidtalk.mspx
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A parent's primer to computer slang
Other common leet words:
"w00t" or the smiley character \o/: An acronym that usually means "We Own the Other Team," used to celebrate victory in a video game.
The latest Slashdot meme.
Google says...
1. woot 618,000
2. ginormous 93,100 Did you mean: enormous
3. confuzzled 65,400
4. chillax 24,500
5. snirt 7,900
6. lingweenie 7,790
7. gription 4,410
8. slickery 772
9. "cognitive displaysia" 254
10. phonecrastinate 221
Define...
Definitions of woot on the Web:
# The term w00t is a slang interjection used to express happiness or excitement, usually over the Internet. The expression is most popular on USENET posts, multiplayer computer games (especially first person shooters), IRC chats, and instant messages, though use on the World Wide Web in the form of weblogs or in forums is by no means uncommon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woot
No definitions were found for confuzzled, cognitive displaysia, chillax, snirt, lingweenie, gription, slickery or phonecrastinate.
"Geeks have lots of words that noone else uses. "Stereochemistry, Hexadecimal, Defrag"
They also don't know how to spell fuck.
"Derp de derp."
Am I the only person that thinks of "enormous vagina" when I hear the word "ginormous?"
I know better, but still it makes me cringe.
The point isn't just the success or failure to communicate an idea. Depending on the language chosen, outside from any 'factual content', there is also conveyed: the writer's opinion of the reader; the writer's opinion of themselves; ancillary flavour; and more besides.
Text that is ungrammatical reads as sloppy thinking, or causes the reader to expend undue effort to decode the content, which can be irritating. It can gives the impression that the writer doesn't care at all about the reader, making the writer look careless, conceited or arrogant.
Language use is also a social marker. Phrases such as 'could care less', and 'lol' in written text are shibboleths, just as much as using the word 'shibboleth' is.
So if you wish to appear uneducated and arrogant, and annoy your readers, feel free to be slack with grammar.
Why do people complain so about poor grammar use? I think mainly because they feel that these extra channels of communication, and the fine distinctions that precise grammar use can distinguish, are important parts of the language. People clamouring for the acceptance of sloppy writing are seen as barbarians massing at the gate, wanting to loot and sack the culture while blind to the things that make it worthwhile. It's not just the ignorance which is affronting, but the way that such ignorance is seen to be becoming acceptable, with the concomitant blurring of expressive power and subtlety. It's like being forced to use Windows 95, because it's "good enough for everyone else".
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."
The "root" explanation and any sort of acronym-based exoplanation are almost certainly urban legend
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I've always rather liked the "root" explanation - it fits with the hacker ethos rather nicely, and I can see how it would arise and spread throughout the community. I'm much more sceptical of any game based abreviation, but I can imagine that an exclamation like "woot!" is pretty easy to come up with for many different areas.
Almost no words came into English as acronyms, but people love to imagine such origins.
Don't know where words like scuba, nimby, Anzac, laser, led and wysiwyg came from, then