w00t!

[Vonkhan]

Gamers will 'w00t' over word of the year
Exclamation of happiness won Merriam-Webster's online poll
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22205339/?GT1=10645


w00t!

/kill self

 

[apac]

That is just terrible.

 

[purbeast0]

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.

that is one of the lamest sentences i've ever seen in a news article.

 

[FoBoT]

w00t!

 

[aircooled]

w00t!
Actually I was hoping woot.com's popularity would also be mentioned. Oh well.

 

[dighn]

Lame. Who the hell still uses that "word" anyway?

 

[manowar821]

God dammit... With respect to Bash.org, I'm going to get rich and famous one day for inventing a way to punch somebody in the face over the Internet.

LOL INTERNETS

 

[dougp]

I've been using this word for almost 10 years ... they're a bit late.

 

[clamum]

lulz, which is a corruption of LOL.

 

[manowar821]

Originally posted by: clamum
lulz, which is a corruption of LOL.

YOU NEED TO GET A DOG, the Internet HATE machine is going to blow up your VAN.

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: manowar821

Originally posted by: clamum
lulz, which is a corruption of LOL.

YOU NEED TO GET A DOG, the Internet HATE machine is going to blow up your VAN.

LOL :laugh:

Domestic terrorists ftl.

 

[randalee]

I don't think Webster knew it was an acronym.

we owned the other team

 

[HammerCurl]

w3@k!

 

[illusion88]

so when we will start seeing numbers in scrabble sets?

 

[Homerboy]

shouldn't this have been about 10 years ago?

 

[Dualist]

I guess the word "woot" finally lived up to its meaning.

 

[Juno]

MOAR W00T!

 

[EKKC]

sad.
maybe next year they can tell themselves to DIAF

 

[Scarpozzi]

For technophobes, the word also is familiar from the 1990 movie "Pretty Woman," in which Julia Roberts startles her date's upper-crust friends with a hearty "Woot, woot, woot!" at a polo match.

OMG....I can't believe they think that this word came from Pretty Woman.

 

[ObiDon]

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi

For technophobes, the word also is familiar from the 1990 movie "Pretty Woman," in which Julia Roberts startles her date's upper-crust friends with a hearty "Woot, woot, woot!" at a polo match.

OMG....I can't believe they think that this word came from Pretty Woman.

yeah, we all know the word came from arsenio hall and the arsenio show

wasn't it merriam-webster that also decided "bootylicious" deserved to be in the dictionary?

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi

For technophobes, the word also is familiar from the 1990 movie "Pretty Woman," in which Julia Roberts startles her date's upper-crust friends with a hearty "Woot, woot, woot!" at a polo match.

OMG....I can't believe they think that this word came from Pretty Woman.

:laugh:

 

[moshquerade]

i was hoping foobies would make it.

 

[gorcorps]

I've lost all faith in humanity.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi

For technophobes, the word also is familiar from the 1990 movie "Pretty Woman," in which Julia Roberts startles her date's upper-crust friends with a hearty "Woot, woot, woot!" at a polo match.

OMG....I can't believe they think that this word came from Pretty Woman.

I thought that was "woof" or something... definitely not "woot"
Whatever it was that they did on Arsenio Hall's show.

Wikipedia agrees with me, at least

 

[Epsil0n00]

I'm sorry to report this thread is now closed.

I have trademarked the word "w00t" and hereby disallow all use outside of official g33k communities, of which Miriam-Webster.com is not part.

Additionally, all spoken use of the aforementioned term is banned under international law. Similarly, words such as 733t, ROFL, LOL, SATA and OMGWTFBBQ are banned from spoken use.

Thank you for your cooperation.