BREAKING NEWS! This just in: Merriam-Webster's Word of '07: 'W00t'

[devilgrrl]

:wow:

Merriam-Webster's Word of '07: 'W00t'
By STEPHANIE REITZ (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press
December 11, 2007 5:55 PM EST

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Expect cheers among hardcore online game enthusiasts when they learn Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year. Or, more accurately, expect them to "w00t."

"W00t," a hybrid of letters and numbers used by gamers as an exclamation of happiness or triumph, topped all other terms in the Springfield-based dictionary publisher's online poll for the word that best sums up 2007.

Merriam-Webster's president, John Morse, said "w00t" was an ideal choice because it blends whimsy and new technology.

"It shows a really interesting thing that's going on in language. It's a term that's arrived only because we're now communicating electronically with each other," Morse said.

Gamers commonly substitute numbers and symbols for the letters they resemble, Morse says, creating what they call "l33t speak" - that's "leet" when spoken, short for "elite" to the rest of the world.

more: http://enews.earthlink.net/article/nat?guid=20071211/475e1950_3421_1334520071211-1190294757

[Posteritatis]

1. w00t!

(Someone hadda say it.)

[TheUniverse]

2. about 8 years too late....

[lonestarnot]

3. I know some woot, and 2007 wasn't a woot, only woot is it's fucking over.

[tekisui]

9. 2007 has been bizarre and horrific.

A lot of climate disasters. A lot of abuses of power. A lot of senseless killing.

[lonestarnot]

10. All that for sure and more, mostly just crap.

[opihimoimoi]

4. Don't forget ZERG.....Migrating/Moving to where the Action is

[judaspriestess]

5. who w00ta thunk it.......

[XemaSab]

6. That is *so* 95

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aBwvFBxf_Eg&mode=related&search=

[Buzz Clik]

7. This is HUGH!!!111

[NashVegas]

8. I Still Love w00t, But Come On

It was the word of 2002!

[Occam Bandage]

11. ZOMG PWNED

ZERG RUSH KEKEKEKEKEKE

[Sugar Smack]

12. LOL.

:D

[lumberjack_jeff]

13. "l33t" is the most moronic thing ever.

a) words composed of numbers posing as letters have no business in a self-respecting dictionary.
b) how do you pronounce 33? ē? Well then don't be a fucking moron, use "ee".
c) it's a code, see? Only the cool kids have the secret decoder ring. Sadly, they're all fucking morons, and they depend on the words l00k1ng l1k3 th31r n0n-r3t@rd3d counterparts.
d) who is it that said you can give typewriters to a roomful of monkeys and odds are that you won't get any good literature? Perhaps not, but the typos this process yields will create a new language.

Pwned indeed.

[RB TexLa]

14. Who would consider that a word?

[originalpckelly]

15. w00t beotch!

HAHAHAHAHA! lulz!