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CherryBom
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Websters Dictionary adds 'w00t'
#7757753 - 12/14/07 10:16 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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The interweb is taking over the real world.
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w00t (interjection): expressing joy (it could be after a triumph, or for no reason at all); similar in use to the word “yay”
w00t! I won the contest!
This year’s winning word first became popular in competitive online gaming forums as part of what is known as l33t (”leet,” or “elite”) speak—an esoteric computer hacker language in which numbers and symbols are put together to look like letters. Although the double “o” in the word is usually represented by double zeroes, the exclamation is also known to be an acronym for “we owned the other team”—again stemming from the gaming community.
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Re: Websters Dictionary adds 'w00t' [Re: CherryBom]
#7757755 - 12/14/07 10:16 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I gotta be the first to say it:
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Re: Websters Dictionary adds 'w00t' [Re: CherryBom]
#7757757 - 12/14/07 10:17 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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When they add "pwned" I'm learning a new language.
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When they add "pwned" I'm gonna quote that post and then write "pwned."
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That will make me laugh so hard
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Re: Websters Dictionary adds 'w00t' [Re: Senor_Doobie]
#7758021 - 12/14/07 11:39 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'm buying an Esperanto book as we speak.
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Plok
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Re: Websters Dictionary adds 'w00t' [Re: CherryBom]
#7758095 - 12/14/07 11:55 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I hate this kind of shit. So much internet slang is just completely retarded.
I'm with Rooster, time to abandon the English language as it drifts off into endless three letter monikers, stupid pointless memes, and needless abbreviations to confuse the hell out of you. I guess I am not "l33t" enough.
Welcome to the AOL generation.
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Re: Websters Dictionary adds 'w00t' [Re: Plok]
#7758118 - 12/14/07 12:01 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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It is official, our nation is RETARDED.
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Re: Websters Dictionary adds 'w00t' [Re: Plok]
#7758156 - 12/14/07 12:16 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Plok said: I hate this kind of shit. So much internet slang is just completely retarded.
I'm with Rooster, time to abandon the English language as it drifts off into endless three letter monikers, stupid pointless memes, and needless abbreviations to confuse the hell out of you. I guess I am not "l33t" enough.
Welcome to the AOL generation.
OMG LOL
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Re: Websters Dictionary adds 'w00t' [Re: Silversoul]
#7758215 - 12/14/07 12:35 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Firefox puts a red line under 'noob' but recognises 'n00b' as legit.
It also underlined 'recognises' right there, I must have a yank browser
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Re: Websters Dictionary adds 'w00t' [Re: sam420]
#7758223 - 12/14/07 12:37 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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recognizes*
pwned
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Re: Websters Dictionary adds 'w00t' [Re: opensaysme]
#7758230 - 12/14/07 12:38 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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i think you missed the point there bud
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Re: Websters Dictionary adds 'w00t' [Re: Plok]
#7758353 - 12/14/07 01:10 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Plok said:
I'm with Rooster, time to abandon the English language as it drifts off into endless three letter monikers, stupid pointless memes, and needless abbreviations to confuse the hell out of you. I guess I am not "l33t" enough.
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Plok said: Welcome to the AOL generation.
Oh the irony!
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Re: Websters Dictionary adds 'w00t' [Re: Plok]
#7758606 - 12/14/07 02:19 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Plok said: I hate this kind of shit. So much internet slang is just completely retarded.
I'm with Rooster, time to abandon the English language as it drifts off into endless three letter monikers, stupid pointless memes, and needless abbreviations to confuse the hell out of you. I guess I am not "l33t" enough.
Welcome to the AOL generation.
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Re: Websters Dictionary adds 'w00t' [Re: CherryBom]
#7758941 - 12/14/07 03:50 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Is that just for the English version, or does it apply to, lets say, Arabic, or whatever?
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Liquid_Dimension said:
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Plok said: I hate this kind of shit. So much internet slang is just completely retarded.
I'm with Rooster, time to abandon the English language as it drifts off into endless three letter monikers, stupid pointless memes, and needless abbreviations to confuse the hell out of you. I guess I am not "l33t" enough.
Welcome to the AOL generation.
I don't know why, but that made me LOL!
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Re: Websters Dictionary adds 'w00t' [Re: Tangerines]
#7759056 - 12/14/07 04:21 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I laughed for a full 5 minutes,my friend was like WTF is wrongggg with you.
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I can just imagine him and his oriental accent.
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Re: Websters Dictionary adds 'w00t' [Re: Tangerines]
#7759073 - 12/14/07 04:24 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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HAHAHA! That's some serious fuckin business.
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I made this up a couple years ago..
Meyant (me-yant) - The sound of displeasure.
It's funny hearing friends say it to people that have no idea without realizing it.
But i'm suprised as hell that numbers got into the dic.
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Re: Websters Dictionary adds 'w00t' [Re: Plok]
#7759944 - 12/14/07 08:01 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Plok said: I hate this kind of shit. So much internet slang is just completely retarded.
I'm with Rooster, time to abandon the English language as it drifts off into endless three letter monikers, stupid pointless memes, and needless abbreviations to confuse the hell out of you. I guess I am not "l33t" enough.
Welcome to the AOL generation.
Chill out IMO!
woot is an awesome word. And it has about a billion appropriate uses.
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Re: Websters Dictionary adds 'w00t' [Re: Shroomism]
#7759945 - 12/14/07 08:02 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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like that
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Re: Websters Dictionary adds 'w00t' [Re: Shroomism]
#7760045 - 12/14/07 08:32 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I just don't think it should ever be said aloud...but I'm all for cyberwooting. That t at the end though, when coming out of someone's mouth...I mean we're talking about some pretty unavoidable spittle action here.
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I don't think I've ever said it aloud. I sure do think it a lot though.
I did hear some guy saying pwned the other day though. It's only a matter of time.
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Re: Websters Dictionary adds 'w00t' [Re: CherryBom]
#7760078 - 12/14/07 08:43 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Wow... They added some stupid words this year:
http://www.m-w.com/info/newwords07.htm
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OneMoreRobot3021



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Re: Websters Dictionary adds 'w00t' [Re: Gumby]
#7760094 - 12/14/07 08:48 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Smackdown
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Gumby
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I'm gonna start using some of these words in college papers. When they tell me it's not a word, I'll be like "Yeah it is, look it up in the dictionary, bitch."
Like in a lab report... "When viewed under the microscope, the microbe was found to be ginormous."
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Re: Websters Dictionary adds 'w00t' [Re: Gumby]
#7760139 - 12/14/07 09:00 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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And make sure you have a ginormous copy of Webster's dictionary handy so when the teacher tells you it's not proper vocabulary you can do like this guy:
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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Then you could really giver her a veritable academic smackdown!
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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Re: Websters Dictionary adds 'w00t' [Re: Gumby]
#7760163 - 12/14/07 09:05 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Gumby said: I'm gonna start using some of these words in college papers. When they tell me it's not a word, I'll be like "Yeah it is, look it up in the dictionary, bitch."
Like in a lab report... "When viewed under the microscope, the microbe was found to be ginormous."
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Re: Websters Dictionary adds 'w00t' [Re: Gumby]
#7760205 - 12/14/07 09:17 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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crunk, word of fluctuating meaning used during the 1990s in lyrics of the rap groups OutKast and Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!
How is "word of fluctuating meaning" a fucking definition!?!?
I was a bit upset at "W00T", but this makes me want to !
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Gumby
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That's not the definition. That's the etymology; the history of the word.
The definition is: a style of Southern rap music featuring repetitive chants and rapid dance rhythms
Which is fucking wrong. My defintion would be
verb: The act of becoming or being inebriated. "I'm going to get so crunk at the party tonight."
adjective: a activity that is exciting. "That G-Unit show last night was so fucking crunk, nigga!"
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Re: Websters Dictionary adds 'w00t' [Re: Gumby]
#7761027 - 12/15/07 06:45 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Oh shit... ok.
It still angers me.
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It is the job of dictionaries and encyclopedias to recollect all these words and document them.
That way, if say an 80 year old came across this word and didn't know what it means, he can look in his copy of websters and find out.
Or in 100 years, if this word isn't used any more researchers can still find out it's meaning in a Websters.
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Re: Websters Dictionary adds 'w00t' [Re: Nibin]
#7761191 - 12/15/07 08:56 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Nibin said: It is the job of dictionaries and encyclopedias to recollect all these words and document them.
That way, if say an 80 year old came across this word and didn't know what it means, he can look in his copy of websters and find out.
Or in 100 years, if this word isn't used any more researchers can still find out it's meaning in a Websters.
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