Hey, for all you poasters out there......How do you know when the truly
groovy is not longer rad? When its picked up and recognized by
mainstream media.
I saw this on the news a while back and don't know if anyone else has
seen it, but Merriam-Webster's word of the year this year is w00t.
Today, someone sent me the information, yet again, and the link
confirming it.
From the Merriam-Webster site:
"Thousands of you took part in the search for Merriam-Webster's Word of
the Year for 2007, and the vast majority of you chose a small word that
packs a pretty big punch. The word you've selected hasn't found its way
into a regular Merriam-Webster dictionary yet—but its inclusion in our
online Open Dictionary, along with the top honors it's now been
awarded—might just improve its chances. 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."
1. 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!
How do you know when the l33t becomes lame? When its picked up by the
mainstream media.
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Fred Doyle
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:34:10 -0500, Fred Doyle <fdoyle1@nycap.rr.com>
wrote:
I'm pretty sure it became lame over a fuckin decade ago when all the
AOL newfags started raping the word up the ass during the great AOL
invasion of '96.
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