w00t - Word of The Year 2007

[Shadrach]

This is pretty cool;

Voters at Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year 2007 poll have chosen "w00t" as 2007's most iconic word. M-W says that the word is a gamer's acronym for "we own the other team," but I'm inclined to think that that's a backronym, a back-formed acronym created to explain a word already in use.
(http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/11/w00t-is-merriamwebst.html)

http://www.merriam-webster.com/info/07words.htm

I know at least someone on these forums who will be very happy about this

Take that Facebook!
w00t!

 

[Nestor Makhno]

Soon t3h h0le w3rld wil b 5p34k1ng 1337!

 

[Heldentod]

w00t!

 

[Fu. Svedberg]

OMG nubs.

w00t is so 1999 for anyone that has been playing online for a while.

And yes it means "we own the other team"

 

[Coey]

I'm shocked that Webster didn't pick up on this, but Woot comes from an ancient form of the Norwegian, 'W

 

[Zetsumei]

OMG nubs.

w00t is so 1999 for anyone that has been playing online for a while.

And yes it means "we own the other team"

its an expression for joy more like when you humiliate the other team. w00t is just woot's leetspeak variant.

 

[odin1899]

w0t0t?

 

[LogisticEarth]

w00t is such a lame word though. It's crude and short.

Why can't they recognize something like ROFLCOPTER?

 

[Xendance]

w00t to me doesn't sound like "we own the other team". It sounds more like "yay" or "what?".

 

[Fu. Svedberg]

w00t to me doesn't sound like "we own the other team". It sounds more like "yay" or "what?".

That's just because you don't have a black belt at internet

Things like this sepparate us black belters from the rest of the pack


(just for clarification if anyone misunderstood this post it's dripping with irony and sarcasm)

 

[SiC-Disaster]

win, cheezburger, bukket and lolcat are far more deserving words IMO.

qft!

 

[Xendance]

That's just because you don't have a black belt at internet

Things like this sepparate us black belters from the rest of the pack


(just for clarification if anyone misunderstood this post it's dripping with irony and sarcasm)

I see your sarcasm and irony and raise with a lame joke.

Only thing that's differend between my and your belt is that that you need a lot more holes in your belt.

 

[Skew]

win, cheezburger, bukket and lolcat are far more deserving words IMO.

 

[Nimsky]

HAW-SOME!!!

(Anyone who gets the reference is cool)

 

[D3terioNation]

Or not as the case may be

I like w00t, its nice!

 

[Ralfst3r]

OMG nubs.

w00t is so 1999 for anyone that has been playing online for a while.

And yes it means "we own the other team"

Agreed

 

[Jono]

w00t!

 

[-SemperFi-Jenova]

i think this is a bad thing

 

[Crusher]

lolcat would be nr. 1 dammit!

for Frank "happycat", may he rest in peace