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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".
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.
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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I mean, how "correct" are we being with this. I always thought w00t was a l33t thing. I have never seen it used outside of computer geek circles really and it's assumed that j00r sp34k1n6 1|\| l33t s0 7h3 00z 4r3 7h3r3.
I guess there is some truthiness with how they pick their words though.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what your country did to you
w00t is your name? w00t is your favourite color? w00t is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow!!!!!
prepare the survey weasels.
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.
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.
I believe this is the first sign of the apocalypse.
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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.
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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
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. --Niels Bohr
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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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.
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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