w00t!

[Joe Siegler]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071212/wr_nm/usa_language_dc

I think this calls for the full sized image, not just the smiley version..

http://forums.3drealms.com/images/wootguy.jpg

[Bludd]

Wow. Word of the year? Really? After how many years? Wow, I'm genuinely shocked by how late they are. I haven't used "w00t" for many years not counting the usage in this sentence. Would it be a stretch to assume that they named it word of the year in irony? I want to assume it. :(

... Word of the year.. Wow... Just wow.

[Steve]

There's a word of year? If it was online I thought it would be something like 'gay' or 'n00b'

:o

[Bludd]

Or "lulz, a corruption of L-O-L -- Laugh Out Loud"

[ZuljinRaynor]

Wow, now w00t is in the dictionary? That's cool. I'd personally prefer lulz since I use it more often but now as a legit word? Neato.

[Dr.Dude]

Great, now we're gonna see stuff like "LMFAOPMP" jump into dictionary's everywhere in a few years. :o

[Superczar]

WTF!? And yet "ain't" isn't a word... :rolleyes:

[Kalki]

It's all PR. 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.

Was that really what she shouted? I seem to recall it differently.

[NutWrench]

I am pleased.

[Water12356]

woot! lol

[Destroyer]

WTF.
ya thats what i think should be word of the year. WTF

[Rider]

Hehe, that's funny :)

Runner-up was "facebook" as a new verb meaning to add someone to a list of friends on the Web site Facebook.com or to search for people on the social networking site.

That sorta downgrades the "worthyness" a little though...

[Micki!]

Well i'll be damned, no one used the small version of joe's pic yet :o...

:woot:

I use this in MSN too, it's among my favorite smiles :D

This is kinda cool though... Seeing frequently used outside-real-life used words, actually being put in the dictionary... I know this has happaned before, still cool though...

[Sang]

Uh. Not that I have anything against gamerspeak (I say woot or w00t every once in a while myself).. but hell, allowing braindead expressions like this to exist officially is another sign of the ever cotinuing moral decay :(

I mean.. if woot can make it to the dictionary, then how about fuk? lolcats? I without a capital latter (i)? L337?

I hope it stays with just this word, or else in a couple decades or millennia, everyone will be talking in leet speak.

[Marty]

OMG w00t FTW

[Waiter]

st00pid.

Kind of funny, but does the inclusion in an internet dictionary make a word official?

[ryche]

Coo' :)

[Llama Gibbz]

Webster should just worry about actual proper words and let urban dictionary handle geek phrases and acronyms.

[Nessus]

"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."

I think what Julia Roberts was doing was going woo woo woo, like an Arsenio Hall style dogpound bark type of thing. I would say Doh! is in much wider usage.

[Usurper]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I think asstunnel is the word of the year.

[ZaphodB]

w00t! (first time i ever used the term)

hmmm, no.
Doesn't have the right flavor. Not like "Cool Dude!" does :D

[Needle]

Omg Lol Wtf?! \o/

[John]

I liked their last word of the year better; "truthiness" :D

Also...

Massachusetts-based Merriam-Webster Inc. said "w00t" -- typically spelled with two zeros -- reflects a new direction in the American language led by a generation raised on video games and cell phone text-messaging.

This reflects a new direction in the American language?

We're all screwed.

[Little Conqueror]

Gamers, we have a moral duty to stop being lazy and stop raping the English language. Before you know it, nobody will be using punctuation or capital letters, either.

[Damien_Azreal]

This is why I refuse to use that 1337 speak shit. As if the English language hasn't been destroyed enough throughout the years... now this.

Ugh.

Tomorrow's children are screwed education wise... w00t will be a spelling word in elementary, and kids that spell it woot will get it wrong. :doh:

[December Man]

Zomfgwtfbbq?! Roflmao!

America, year 2050:

-Yo Joe, how's it goin'? lol
-L33t m8 total pwnage lol
-Wtf? lol
-I lost my virginity with Sarah w00t lol
-lol wut?
-Sarah u facking n00b lol
-k, lol

[0marTheZealot]

w00tzorZ

[Wamplet]

"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."

I think what Julia Roberts was doing was going woo woo woo, like an Arsenio Hall style dogpound bark type of thing. I would say Doh! is in much wider usage.

This is true.

the writer must have watched Pretty Woman on an airplane with some really bad headphones to make that mistake.

[Hapansilli]

w00t.

[Skulhedface]

I dont have a problem with the word "Woot", its just an interjection in most cases. Yet, to spell it with the double zeros in NORMAL nomenclature, well thats just beyond silly.

[Dopefish7590]

w00t! :p

[GOK]

I'm a self confessed w00ter from way back. This news w00tifies me.:)

[John]

I dont have a problem with the word "Woot", its just an interjection in most cases. Yet, to spell it with the double zeros in NORMAL nomenclature, well thats just beyond silly.

phail

[Retodon8]

I too thought "woot" is actually a really old word, used outside of the whole internet/computer/gaming/geek/whatever community as well.

Well i'll be damned, no one used the small version of joe's pic yet :o...

Who is that guy anyway?

Gamers, we have a moral duty to stop being lazy and stop raping the English language. Before you know it, nobody will be using punctuation or capital letters, either.

that made me smile because it would be really bad if people started doing that it would make everything really hard to read so im really glad people dont write like that online dont forget about removing paragraphs and writing everything on one big line basically

Wait, that should've been:
that made me smile cuz it wud be rly bad if ppl started doing that it wud make everything rly hard two read so im really glad people dont right like that online dont forget bout removing paragraphs and righting everything on one big line basically

It's not just English.
I know for a fact it's Dutch too, and I expect every language used online is raped like that by a significant number of people.

[Waiter]

Gamers, we have a moral duty to stop being lazy and stop raping the English language. Before you know it, nobody will be using punctuation or capital letters, either.

But I, do!

[Sang]

I know for a fact it's Dutch too

what

No it's not I never say woot in dutch

[alexgk]

:woot: indeed.

[Retodon8]

what

No it's not I never say woot in dutch

Among other gamers on occasion I do, but actually I was referring to the language abuse. :)

[jagguar20]

LOL stands for Lots of Love rite? :love:

[Superczar]

LOL stands for Lots of Love rite? :love:

LOFL :D :p

[ryche]

LOL stands for Lots of Love rite? :love:

Suuuurreeee does :D





now. LOL :)