SmokingDjinn Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 How does this grab your fancy? http://www.merriam-webster.com/info/07words.htm Now we can say w00t and its completely legitimized, w00t! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemmiwinks Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 I saw that, its hilarious. I want to put it in a paper or a lab report or something now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geiseric Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 /.ers of the world, unite!(Forgive me, Marx) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaia.plateau Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 This is why I only use Oxford's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anathema Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Language grows, more in the internet department of phrases/words than anything else it seems. I've read somewhere that "goodbye" used to be "god be with ye."I mean if it comes up often enough and people do use it, then why not have a definition for it? I remember using w00t in 5th grade which was about 9 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaia.plateau Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 (edited) QUOTE (anathema @ Dec 13 2007, 02:27 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Language grows, more in the internet department of phrases/words than anything else it seems. I've read somewhere that "goodbye" used to be "god be with ye."I mean if it comes up often enough and people do use it, then why not have a definition for it? I remember using w00t in 5th grade which was about 9 years ago.But there's a difference between the adaptation of words to more easily express ideas, and the adoption of new ones to express ideas which are neither cognitive nor productive. And where does it end? Do you really want to live in a world where "lawl" and "for the win" are acceptable academic language? The fact that facebook is also in the Merriam-Webster dictionary makes me want to take up international terrorism.The point here is devolution, not evolution.Exhibit A, the film Idiocracy. Bittorrent it. Edit: how many years until Bittorrent is in the dictionary, I wonder. 2? 2 1/2? Christ. Edited December 13, 2007 by gaia.plateau Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmokingDjinn Posted December 13, 2007 Author Share Posted December 13, 2007 Idiocracy is awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheese// Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 I don't even say W00tand I already feel like a tool for typing it.It should stay on the internet.If I hear someone say it in real life I'll harvest their organs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaia.plateau Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 QUOTE (SmokingDjinn @ Dec 13 2007, 11:40 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Idiocracy is awesome.Haha I just found this.It's got electrolytes!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmokingDjinn Posted December 13, 2007 Author Share Posted December 13, 2007 Wonder what that tastes like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecoalition Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 not nearly as stupid as when d'oh made it in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anathema Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 (edited) Words that are in the dictionary doesn't mean they're acceptable in academic works. There are certain words or phrases people don't use when writing in different tones.And lawl is just the phonetical spelling of lol, an acronym. For the win is already a phrase that is used, in sports perhaps?And why would it be considered devolution? It's just a newly developed vernacular, lingo, slang, jargon.Cheese get on ventrilo and I'll gladly help you harvest some organs. And you used the word "tool." Slang again? Edited December 14, 2007 by anathema Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayVer Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 I saw this on cnbc the other day and couldn't believe it... it's the "word of 2007". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shisha fan Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 QUOTE (SmokingDjinn @ Dec 13 2007, 06:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Idiocracy is awesome.it sure is. i had to think of that movie right away when i read this.this just shows that people get more and more retarded each year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uprising Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Maybe its just me, but I always figured that a word shouldn't have numbers in it. But I suppose this is what happens when a language doesn't have a centralized authoritative and regulating body like, say, l'Academie Française. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostofdavid Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 The death of art is the death of society. I think language can be interchanged with art. DEATH! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecoalition Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 im just waiting until nerd-talk rules the dictionary. and we shall know this day when we see the word of 2008- 1337....death to non-nerds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaia.plateau Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 QUOTE (thecoalition @ Dec 14 2007, 02:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>im just waiting until nerd-talk rules the dictionary. and we shall know this day when we see the word of 2008- 1337....death to non-nerdsIt wouldn't surprise me at all... if w00t can be in the dictionary, 1337 certainly can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternalSoil Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 1337 is actually in a sense, a language... 1337 5p34K has many variations and noobs like to try and use it to sound cool and im like "you typed half that word normally" 1337 speak is not easy to read unless you know how or have adapted to understand it. its kinda easy but many people dont look at a 4 and think it could be an A or see a 2 and think R the other ones are pretty simple like 3 = E and 7 people already know is T."for the win" is 3 words not one and "FTW" is an acronym.just like "LOL" is an acronym for "laugh(ing) out loud" its 3 words.i spell wo0t like that! cause it makes me think o.0 which makes me laugh.im a nerd... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheese// Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Yes, you are.Computer gamers. What can I say? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
entrailsgalore Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 next on the list are ZOMG?1 and ROFLPWNT!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seanij Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 haha ZOMG YOU GOT PWNT ROFLLLLLMAOCOPTER. Thats pretty funny, -searchs the dictionary to find out what a whale is and finds w00t- okay i'll replace whale with w00t! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cybersist Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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