http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071212/wr_nm/usa_language_dc;_ylt=AgOYbyVHpW3r39qm9oMK8YcjtBAF
Yep… it’s now officially mainstream. O_o
w00t
wewt
woohoo :3
…um er I mean >_>;
w00t. 
Wzerozerot?
finally, w00t
This is what happens when you ask the internet.
l33t speak will rule the rule one day.
Geez, and here I thought something would have to be a word to qualify for word of the year.
Don’t be so fatuous, Sohee. w00t is a perfectly cromulent word.
I’ll show you cromulent!
Oh man. That’s hot. That is so totally embiggening me right now.
reflects a new direction in the American language led by a generation raised on video games and cell phone text-messaging.
Am I the only one who can’t read this in anything even remotely close to a positive light?
We owned (the) other team!
:kissy:
Still think Caturday is better.
Well, language changes. Old words change meaning or pass out of use and new words come, either to stay or to be forgotten a few years later.
Meh. It’s not like I really consider Merriam-Webster to be an accurate assessment of the english language. Now, if the Oxford English Dictionary says it’s a real word, well… ithen it still doesn;t matter, as they’re just trying to garner attention.
You mean Truthiness didn’t win? Do’h!!
ANything that somebody does or will say i caonsider to be a word! just like w00t!
People look for self-evident numeral-letter substitutions: 0 for O; 3 for E; 7 for T; and 4 for A," he said. “This is simply a different and more efficient way of representing the alphabetical character.”
Did anyone else find this absolutely rediculous. It is not more effecient. What happens when you want to actually use the numbers. 1337 is confusing, but it is how I remember the year the 100 years war was started.
Their choice of Ginormous a couple years back was way better.