w00t is 3rd Favorite Non-Dictionary Word 422
Jay writes "The word has been getting out apparently. No longer just a word for gamers, 'woot' now appears as #3 in Merriam-Webster's What's Your Favorite Word (That's Not in the Dictionary)? contest. It was beaten out by ginormous and confuzzled."
Cromulent (Score:5, Funny)
Obligatory Critic Quote (Score:5, Funny)
Duke - Kwizibyck.
Marty - That's not a word.
Duke - Get Webster on the phone. Noah, how ya doing? It's Duke. How much would it cost to make kwizibyck a word? I don't know what it means. Uhh, how about a big problem? Great. How 'bout that other word I invented, Dukelicious? No one's using it? What a Duketastrophy!
Re:Obligatory Critic Quote (Score:5, Funny)
[playing scrabble game]
Bart : Kwijybo. I win, I'm outta here.
Homer: Wait a minute, you little cheater. You're not going anywhere 'til you tell me what a Kwijybo is.
Bart : Kwijybo. A big dumb balding North American ape. With no chin.
Marge: And a short temper.
Homer: I'll show you a big, dumb balding ape.
Re:Obligatory Critic Quote (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Obligatory Critic Quote (Score:5, Funny)
In one episode, Cat uses the word 'Jozxyqk' in a Scrabble game, claiming it to be a cat word meaning, "the sound you get when you get your sexual organs trapped in something."
Re:Cromulent (Score:3, Funny)
Are you trying to embiggen our language?
woohoo! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:woohoo! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Woohoo (Score:5, Insightful)
Unfortunately it isn't funny either.
Confuzzled? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Confuzzled? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Confuzzled? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Confuzzled? (Score:5, Funny)
Isn't that when the Oracle database goes down and you're the DBA?
Re:Confuzzled? (Score:2)
Re:Confuzzled? THATS OLD!! (Score:2)
Re:Confuzzled? THATS OLD!! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Confuzzled? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Confuzzled? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Confuzzled? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Confuzzled? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Confuzzled? (Score:2)
Honestly, I had the same reaction with "ginormous" before. That was new to me.
Re:Confuzzled? (Score:4, Funny)
I fucking hate that word...
Re:Confuzzled? (Score:2)
Confoxed, not Confuzzled... (Score:2)
Re:Confuzzled? (Score:3, Informative)
Apparantly most people pronounce it like 'puzzled' just swapping the 'p' for a 'con', but I always pronounced it as confoozled. For what it's worth I'm from New York. Seems to be mostly a US usage.
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Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:2)
The only ones I approved of were w00t, ginormous, and phonecrastinate.
Re:Huh? (Score:2)
Re:Huh? (Score:3, Interesting)
If w00t made the list then... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:If w00t made the list then... (Score:5, Funny)
Nah. n00b hasn't been around long enough...
Re:If w00t made the list then... (Score:2, Informative)
Dictionary subject to trends? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Dictionary subject to trends? (Score:2)
Do you have any actual evidence that this is the case other than a feeling/speculation?
Re:Dictionary subject to trends? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Dictionary subject to trends? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Dictionary subject to trends? (Score:3, Insightful)
So yes -- the dictionary is subject to trends. Because it
Re:Dictionary subject to trends? (Score:3, Insightful)
When slang becomes broadly adopted and looks like it will persist in the language, and not be merely a 1-generation fad, it makes sense to record it in a dictinary.
W00t! (Score:5, Funny)
What about Fugly (Score:3, Interesting)
My other favorite is Gigantor, that being a person (there was someone in particular) who s so huge that they have developed a Godzilla like reputation, and the ablity to block sunlight. Or in the case of this person break concrete steps while walking up them.
Re:What about Fugly (Score:3, Informative)
Well thats just craptastic . . (Score:5, Funny)
Call me old fashioned (Score:2)
When it gets corporate backing... (Score:5, Interesting)
Toxic Sludge is good for you [ejnet.org]
I am feeling bitter today
Presented definition of squinching incorrect! (Score:2)
It is pretty sad when the dictionary people don't know the real meaning of a word. They say in their introduction that it is merely to fit into a small space. That is not squinching. Dag nabbit. Also, the definition of w00t mis-spells the word, and gives no explanation. It is subtler than what they claim. more useful, and intriguing.
Back in my day... (Score:2, Funny)
The nature of dictionaries (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:The nature of dictionaries (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:The nature of dictionaries (Score:2)
Re:The nature of dictionaries (Score:4, Informative)
Re:The nature of dictionaries (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:The nature of dictionaries (Score:2)
Whatever happened to (Score:3, Insightful)
A few favorites (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:A few favorites (Score:3, Insightful)
The only one missing from your list is automagic.
Re:A few favorites (Score:3, Interesting)
A few more I'd like to see:
- Broked (as in "They done broked me"
- Fucktard (excuse the profanity)
- Interweb (a purposly missspoken word used when talking as someone who t
Re:A few favorites (Score:3, Interesting)
Ok.. Ok. (Score:2)
Especially the word "woot". "LOL" being the scariest one I use in real life sometimes in place of actually... oh I dunno... *gasp* laughing!
It's all very confuzzling.
Re:Ok.. Ok. (Score:2, Funny)
How about... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:How about... (Score:2)
Re:How about... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:How about... (Score:2)
Never heard of Chav then? (Score:3, Interesting)
Gynormous (Score:2)
gynormous (adj): Carting around a whole lot of junk in the trunk while female. An extra helping of woman.
"Yeah, she's cute, but the chick she's with is gynormous!"
Slashdot (Score:2, Funny)
Obscure reference, but... (Score:3, Funny)
Rich Hall must be rolling in his grave right now. That is, if he's dead.
If not, surely his career is rolling in its grave...
W
Me and my friends always use (Score:2)
Which basically means beyond bullshit.
"Did you see the frabernackle the MPAA is trying to pull with this broadcast flag proposal?"
Then again, me and my friends say a lot of dumb things.
On Language (Score:2)
Re:On Language (Score:4, Insightful)
The point isn't just the success or failure to communicate an idea. Depending on the language chosen, outside from any 'factual content', there is also conveyed: the writer's opinion of the reader; the writer's opinion of themselves; ancillary flavour; and more besides.
Text that is ungrammatical reads as sloppy thinking, or causes the reader to expend undue effort to decode the content, which can be irritating. It can gives the impression that the writer doesn't care at all about the reader, making the writer look careless, conceited or arrogant.
Language use is also a social marker. Phrases such as 'could care less', and 'lol' in written text are shibboleths, just as much as using the word 'shibboleth' is.
So if you wish to appear uneducated and arrogant, and annoy your readers, feel free to be slack with grammar.
Why do people complain so about poor grammar use? I think mainly because they feel that these extra channels of communication, and the fine distinctions that precise grammar use can distinguish, are important parts of the language. People clamouring for the acceptance of sloppy writing are seen as barbarians massing at the gate, wanting to loot and sack the culture while blind to the things that make it worthwhile. It's not just the ignorance which is affronting, but the way that such ignorance is seen to be becoming acceptable, with the concomitant blurring of expressive power and subtlety. It's like being forced to use Windows 95, because it's "good enough for everyone else".
woot == excitement? :-\ (Score:4, Interesting)
3. woot (interj): an exclamation of joy or excitement
If I'm not mistaken woot is the abbrivation for We Own the Other Team, and was introduced with multiplayer games.
Re:woot == excitement? :-\ (Score:4, Informative)
See the Wikipedia article [wikipedia.org].
Re:woot == excitement? :-\ (Score:5, Funny)
Re:woot == excitement? :-\ (Score:4, Interesting)
It is interesting how people always assume that some word started somehow in the first context in which they encountered it.
I know I have seen it used in NannyMUD since 1992 or so. I always assumed that it started there and was some Swedish slang. That is of course because I first encountered it there in 1992
Woot; the acronym. (Score:4, Interesting)
We Own the Other Team
Re:Woot; the acronym. (Score:5, Informative)
Finally! The recognition I deserve! (Score:5, Funny)
I'd like to thank all the people who helped me get where I am today, all the script kiddies, my coworkers, O'Reilly & Associates, Linus Torvolds for making Linux, Bill Gates for making Windows, and all the really smart people out there at MIT for making X11.
We've come along way from Athena widgets, nobody in their right mind uses Motif anymore, and everything is a beautiful drab KDE and Gnome gray. We've had SCO try to poison our spirits, but that which does not kill you only makes you stronger.
Way to go folks. You've done well. (note to mods: this is funny, look at my uid)
Which language? (Score:2)
Re:Which language? (Score:2)
phonecrastinate (Score:2)
You've got to be fucking kidding me. This is the first time I've ever seen that.
Spelling - it is w00t, dumbass! (Score:2)
What about W's favorite word ... (Score:2)
microsoft's definition of w00t (Score:4, Interesting)
A parent's primer to computer slang
Other common leet words:
"w00t" or the smiley character \o/: An acronym that usually means "We Own the Other Team," used to celebrate victory in a video game.
What about misunderestimate? (Score:2)
Re:We need a new word now. (Score:5, Funny)
We don't need to make stuff up to be misunderstood.
Re:We need a new word now. (Score:4, Funny)
They also don't know how to spell fuck.
Re:We need a new word now. (Score:4, Funny)
w00t > Jubilation!
thx > Gratitude!
gj > Felicitations!
Now you get to be different from the mainstream once again.
Re:We need a new word now. (Score:5, Funny)
bj > Fellatitations!
Re:We need a new word now. (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:We need a new word now. (Score:4, Funny)
Eh? The Jargon File [catb.org] would disagree - see the entry for w00t [catb.org]
"An interjection similar to "Yay!", as in: "w00t!!! I just got a raise!" Often used for small victories the speaker dies not expect to be of special interest to anyone else. Some claim this is a bastardization of "root", the highest level of access to a system (particularly UNIX), originated by script kiddies as a 133tspeak equivalent of "root", and said as an exclamation upon gaining root access. Others claim it originated in the Everquest multiplayer game as an abbreviation of "wonderful loot". Still other claim it on originated on IRC as the "Ewok victory cheer"] Adj. w00table has the sense of "cool" or "nifty". This is one of the few leet-speak coinages to have crossed over into non-ironic use among hackers."
Re:We need a new word now. (Score:3, Interesting)
I've always rather liked the "root" explanation - it fits with the hacker ethos rather nicely, and I can see how it would arise and spread throughout the community. I'm much more sceptical of any game based abreviation, but I can imagine that an exclamation like "woot!" is pretty easy to come up with for many different areas.
Almost no words came into English as acronyms, but people love to imagine such o
Re:We need a new word now. (Score:2)
Re:Shinatz (Score:2)
Re:slashdot's favorite non-word (Score:2)
imo the most common is "insure" instead of "ensure", though I think that's technically retardedness not misspelling since even if they read their own posts they wouldn't spot it.
Meh! (Score:2)
Re:What's funnier than all of these fake words.... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Does anybody even know (Score:2)
Re:Does anybody even know (Score:2)
Re:Does anybody even know (Score:2)
Re:Ginormous (Score:4, Funny)