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"Noob" To Become The Millionth Official English Word
PHPNerd writes "According to experts, the English language has entered a state of evolution that is progressing so rapidly that we are adding a new word to it every 98 minutes. This kind of language development hasn't been seen since the days of William Shakespeare. One of the biggest words in nerd culture today is "noob" which could end up being the 1,000,000th word added to the English language by the Global Language Monitor. From the article, 'The word "noob" has its heavy roots in gamer culture, which should be obvious since we're talking about it. It's also seen a lot of use among online communities to "welcome" fresh faces, and has become an accepted term of abuse for anybody who looks like they don't know what they're doing. The Global Language Monitor accepts words once they have been used 25,000 times by media outlets.'"
Im sure Im not the only one who went
"Oh.....my.....god"
there is no such thing as "official" English words.
Hooray for "noob"!
It's a better 1 millionth milestone word than "greenwashing" which was reported elsewhere to possibly be taking the spot.
We all know it's n00b.
TAKE THAT YOU FSCKING NOOBS!
This post was made in complete sincere seriousity; as such any attempts to derive humour are doomed to instant failure.
IMHO, "noob" is the newb way to spell newb.
It goes to show that even after a million words, humans still have a lot to learn.
"In the absence of the ability to establish the attribute of truth they tried to establish the noble attributes."
But when will they finally add Saibot?