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'w00t' Named 2007 Word of the Year
bukharin writes "'w00t', the "small word that packs a pretty big punch", has been named Word of the Year for 2007 by dictionary gurus Merriam-Webster. Visitors to the Merriam-Webster website were asked to vote for one of 20 commonly searched words and phrases. Facebook was the runner-up. Previously honored geek words include google (runner-up in 2006) and blog (winner in 2004)."
I haven't seen anyone use "w00t" in about three years.
Who still uses w00t? I haven't used that since like 1998... What's the PHRASE of 2007, "All your base are belong to us?"
I am elated by this news. I feel a great sense of triumph that this word has received such an honor. If only there were some word that could express my happiness at this victory for geek-kind, perhaps a word with numbers substituted for letters somewhere.
Oh well, I guess I'll just go with "yay".
I thought the correct representation was w00t, with 'zeroes' and not capital O's, as in wOOt.
Use your head, can't you, use your head,
You're on earth, there's no cure for that - S. Beckett
There's always woot.com... That's been gaining popularity rapidly...
If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good
can now be summarized as "mount, grep, w00t"
The only reason google lost is because the criterion was the most "commonly searched for words". If someone can already search, how likely are they to search for "google"?
Any guest worker system is indistinguishable from indentured servitude.
...what is the w00t of the year?
Word of the year in 2012? Über.
2013: Slashvertisement
2014: fucktard
2015:1337
Dedicated Cthulhu Cultist since 4523 BC.
Leet-speak from 2001 gets named "word of the year" in 2007? How does that work?
Next year I suppose it'll be "pwned."
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Following "w00t" in the list of most searched-for terms were such terms as "clearasil" and "cheetos".
Apparently so, but you'll get marked down for it.
Operation Guillotine is in effect.
w00t is your name? w00t is your favourite color? w00t is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow!!!!!
prepare the survey weasels.
I was wondering the same thing. I guess they can, now; the dictionary has spoken.
Any mainstream lexiconographer will readily admit that his work is descriptive, not prescriptive.
Bling
Jiggy
Fresh
Bad
Gnarly
Dude
or any of the popular slang words from our childhood... of course those were all 3-5 years old by the time they reached nationwide popularity too..
It does represent the shifting focus of teen age pop culture however... surfer, skater, rocker, DJ Mixer, hip-hopper, Rap Star, Nerd, Hacker
What's next? ask the kids... they know.
A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.
Which only means that we need more Grammar Nazis as lexicographers. Grammatik macht frei.
It's a pity, I almost had a new way to dispose of my w's in scrabble. Now I'm boned.
woot!
For those not familiar with the site, they sell one product a day, until it's gone, at a deep discount. Today (12/13/2007) it's a NavMan GPS for $149.
I hit the site every day.
Some people have a way with words, and some people, um, thingy.
\o/
I believe this is the first sign of the apocalypse.
arsenio hall wants his word back.
http://www.whuddafug.com
09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0
Two blank tiles will do the trick.
..of course, with this announcement, the next version of Scrabble will have to be rescored and retiled to accomodate more possible entries. I, for one, welcome our alphanumeric overlords.
Merriam-Webster's word of the year would be in their dictionary.
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/w00t. Odd that.
Genesis 1:32 And God typed
Pecksniffian? Pecksniffian was in the running??
Seriously???
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The memo I seemed to miss is that "word", in the written language context, now accepts embedded numerals.
Maybe we can solve the overload problem by suffixing a word with a non-pronounced number pointing to the definition intended by the writer, e.g. love2: "a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend", instead of love3: "sexual passion or desire".
Of course, many careers are founded upon the existing ambiguity...
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
It aint a word because it contains two numbers. Who ever thought to give it a title is a tw4t.
Of uncertain origin; theories include:
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. --Niels Bohr
I don't know about you, but I first saw w00t circa 1990 on efnet #hack... didnt he have an account on upt.org?
Does anyone else think that this was just a joke played by some highschool kids saying that they own your website? The only reason "pwned" (or any variation of it) wasn't used is because it would be too obvious that scriptkiddies rigged your election.
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I've also seen woot as an acronym for "(i) Want One Of Those", as in Woot.Com and the more interesting iWoot.com, which is kind of a british ThinkGeek.
Doesn't surprise me. I acutally knew someone at the SD ambassadors of excellence camp whose name was woot, because his original given name when he was born in norway was too hard to pronounce in english.
To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were capable of staying awake long enough.
For awhile any website that asked for a e-mail that really did not need it. I used the e-mail address woot@woot.com, I felt bad once I discovered woot.com was actually a website, and the amount of spam that I know have going to them.
Take a look at words like hypocrite, conundrum, quixotic; none of these words is current. It would appear that voters didn't care if a word was actually USED in 2007, just that they liked the word and thought it deserved mention. Pecksniffian dates as far back as 1894.
NO CARE EVER.
The day the language died.
Proud member of the American Non Sequitur Society. We might not make much sense, but boy do we love pizza!
"At least it's not... Bling Jiggy Fresh Bad Gnarly Dude..."
Come on, now... "dude" has stood the test of time, and has remained in constant usage for decades. Don't harsh my mellow.
Brilliant! Screw this procedural English language, we need overloading, we need encapsulation, we need inheritance, by Job we need an Object Oriented language!
A libertarian shat on my carpet once. Claimed the free market would sort it out. -Ford Prefect(8777)
Well, last night was the first time I looked at a Linux desktop in 3 years. I installed PCLinuxOS on my girlfriends box last night, and I was impressed. It looked and felt a lot like a windows machine (which she needs). Now that we have a desktop that works well as a competitor, maybe the migration can really start. My previous experiences have been severely disappointing for the desktop, and I'm a huge fan of *nix (for myself, I like OpenBSD). So, maybe if 'they' just keep using that phrase, it will stick.
Some of the internet-induced changes to language are cheeky and fun, but some are ominous. I remember how horrible it was the first time I heard "rape" being used as an analogy for "pwn." At the time I was going out with a girl who was a rape counselor, so maybe I was hyper-sensitive at the time. But, what really disturbed me was how even knowing how I felt about that usage, I started to use the word in that context myself. I wonder how such a change in language might impact the real-world offense. Do people now soften a bit as they associate a tragic news story with last night's beat down in Alterac Valley?
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
I think there's one more word that should be considered. ;)
I write bullshit
Ahh, those clever guys pushing woot.com...
Seriously though, who visits Merriam-Webster, m-w.com, and looks up definitions or even votes? Who does that? This is a silly little web poll on their site. Meh. move along, nothing to see here.
I vote to make WTF the abbreviation of the year. Now I'm off to RTFA.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
I submit that we already have such. The merry confusion stems from our non-grasp of reality.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
As far as I know, it started out as "We owned other team." Anyone else have a differing idea about its origin?
Quidnam Latine loqui modo coepi?
The story of woot, as we know it, is simple. There were two similar songs on the charts that year. In April "Whoot There It Is" by 95 South (Ichiban Records) was the number seven best-selling song in Central Florida, according, to the Orlando Sentinel. "Whoomp! (There It Is)," by Tag Team (Life Records) out of Atlanta showed up at number 15 on Billboard's R&B singles 27 May 1993 and stayed for 45 weeks on the Billboard top 100, where it reached number 2. It was the more popular of the two songs.
Elsewhere woot is claimed to come from root, the user name given in Unix-based operating systems to the administrator's account. This lacks any supporting evidence at all, except for dubious claims of "I remember," and is rebuffed here for the sake of completeness.
Wasn't there a hacker group known as w00t around that time frame as well? Whatever happened to them?
- SR
No, my example was derived from http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=love
But the point you raise, standardizing the reference for the English language, would be a jolly food-fight, indeed.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
e.g. love2: "a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend", instead of love3: "sexual passion or desire".
Don't you mean "Love", "Lovara" and "Lovaga"? Quit playing old translations, please.
I suck at previewing.
Maybe we can solve the overload problem by forcing everyone to learn (proper) French, where everything has 30 words to describe it in similar yet subtly colored details. I'm sure there are lots of other highly verbose languages, but French is the one I know. I've lost count of how many pointless arguments I've triggered through ambiguous usage of "one fits all" English words that would make any lawyer salivate.
-Billco, Fnarg.com
Ah, well, the dictionary has to assume that when a man tells a woman he loves her, when really he's just trying to get into her pants, then he's telling the truth so that's what the word must mean. That's what comes of words being defined by usage.
Quidnam Latine loqui modo coepi?
No, you simply trade flavors of problem, as the food-fight moves to the medically correct definition of "(proper) French".
The only real advantage I see is that the French have a government entity empowered to define "French", non?
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
You guys are all a bunch of LLAMAS
We were going along nicely on this 12th day of December, almost forgetting the ridiculous amount of human stupidity displayed throughout this year, looking forward for 2008 to try and better ourselves. Now this piece of "news".
*sobs softly*
In related news, the book of the year was /.
I hope you don't suck at love3.
In either case, here at Microsoft, we feel standards are important. And we have fun, too. Doug Mahugh, Microsoft
Sorry if this has already been pointed out, but try looking up 'wOOt' in their dictionary - it's not there. They suggested 'wot' or 'way-out' instead.
I've seen the use of the word WOOT for a very long time, and I've always understood the origin to have the meaning of "We Own the Other Team".
How much is your data worth? Back it up now.
I'm willing to bet this is a backronym, and not the actual origin... and 'yay' is an acronym for "yippee and yahoo!"
Unlikely.
How does this even make sense?
Still don't think so.
Still no.
Really I think it's just a sound someone typed out one day online and it caught on. It was probably some idiosyncratic sound that original person liked to use in real life. It's one of those sounds whose meaning is clear just from the sound of it. You don't make a 'w00t' sound when you're sad unless you're being ironic. Trying to look further into it and come with ridiculous etymological explanations is getting really stupid and further and further from the likely truth.
Last year I attended a conference. woot.com was one of the sponsors. At the closing ceremony they passed out some swag from that company to the attendees - in a container boldly labeled with the company logo.
When I got home and she saw it my wife was ROTFL.
She's one of the couple hundred remaining speakers of the west-coast American Indian trade jargon. And it seems that, in that language, the word for the male organ is (approximately) WOOT-`let.
Shades of 18th century viagra ads.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16411904
I vote for "corporadoes". "2007: the Year of Corporadoes" seems about right.
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make install -not war
w00t?
Nom de dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperie de connard d encule de ta mere.
So how long until we see "less than 3" in there? 3
-- Flaw
<3, even.
Stupid filters.
-- Flaw
Metalworkers have been using WOOT for CENTURIES, as it's referring to a type of metal conglomeration that is formed during a forging process, specifically in the making of Damascus steel (and woot is sometimes referred to the carbon-laden base metal as well, despite what WIKIPEDIA's idiots think.) You fools took it from us, thinking it was a cheer, when in reality when we said "woot!" it was us being burned by the by-products of forging metals for your scientific programs. WOOT = WOO + SHIT, that was close!
The more you know, the more you grow. Get thine head out of electronics and study other fields that have had an impact on your life, like metalworking.
Yes, I'm trolling. I'm sick of this bullshit "internet slang" using words that were already defined and made CENTURIES AGO.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Perhaps you should boot up a game that makes use of the world wide wibble. The woots still flow like drops of water of the dew soaked grass on a sunny Kentucky morning.
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask where they're goin' and hook up with 'em later.
... a type of carbon-steel or the shellac produced from steel working, yea? W00t that one for awhile whilst I make yet another sword.
You're all amateurs. It wasn't even a geek word to begin with. what's worse is Wikipedia doesn't even have that meaning as far as I can tell. So much for a useful study resource. My metalworking book had more information than Wikipedia did.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
I can't believe nobody mentioned the w00t paradox!?!
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/W00t
Also isn't this news a bit old:
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/28/2048245&tid=133
Shouldn't there be a w00t! tag or something to link the two articles?