w00t voted 'Word of the Year'

Facebook?

If someone uses the "verb" facebook in my presence, they will discover my definition: which involves them being hit about the face with a large hardback.

Merriam Webster Online

I wouldn't take them seriously. They can't even come up with a decent website.

'Facebook' this!

If someone 'facebooks' me, I shall put a book in their face.

Want One Of Those?

I thought w00t meant "want one of those".

I must be out of touch and am therefore moving towards the cloakroom.

I'm sorry, it was my fault.

I was going to vote for 'apathetic' (one of the other nominees) but couldn't be bothered. :(

Verbification

The name Google has been verbified for a long time.

Not exactly new...

Nice to see that they're up to speed on the latest trends. The usage of "w00t" has only been around for what, 8 years now?

You get what you expect with Americans

Since they can't even spell words like 'Colour' and 'Neighbour' properly, why should we expect anything more from them here?

Anyone who uses terms like 'leet', 'w00t' 'm8' or 'pwned' deserves to die horibly.

Oh, wait I just did....

Quote

"the exclamation is also known to be an acronym for "we owned the other team" - again stemming from the gaming community"

It can't be an acronym, any self respecting gamer would spell it "we pwned the other team", or (more precisely) "w3 pwnz0r3d th3 0th3r t34m"

For the win!

I take 'facebooked' to mean the same thing as 'homerowed'.

w00t!

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w00t FTW!!!

WTF?? NSFW? NFW!

/me 1s 4 1337 h4x0r - 3v3n G0t l1st3d 1n d1ck5hun4ry

LMAO @ w3bst3rs - fsck1ng 1d10t5!

DILLIGAF????!!!!

Warez teh pr0n?

pwnedlol

Have to say, this seems a little outdated. Who says woot anymore?

Ironic, today of all days....

.... that this story has come up, it was only an hour ago I was arguing with someone about the poor reading and writing skills we equip our students with when they leave school.

Let's use a more precise term to describe this than "verbification", it's more appropriate term is Bastardisation.

Just goes to show that the poorly educated, now feel they have to create words as they don't seem to know enough of the original ones. I already ignore people that use L33t as it's not a language I'm familiar with, if they talked English or French then fine.

as a verb

Is this w00t a new super verbified version of w00t? As in, "I think I'm in for a serious w00ting here"?

As for Facebook as a verb, I will admit to using it, every now and then. It's not much different from using Google as a verb. Whilst that might not lend any strength at all to my argument (!), I'm able to use Facebook as a verb without sounding like I'm trying hard to use Facebook as a verb.

A bit like being able to use the word cool, despite the fact that millions of parents, the world over, will never be able to do so.

Wow... bunch of old farts here...

I realize some comments above may have been made with sarcasm and/or ironic intent... but remember that doesn't translate well via text.

But seriously. Does everyone who is freaking out about this realize how old they sound? You seem just a step away from sitting in the rocking chair on the porch, yelling at those whipper-snappers to get off your lawn. You realize that language evolves, and what we might consider "proper" English (American English in my case), would have been seen as base and disgusting in the Victorian era instead of the "proper" Latin or French origin words? And further back, we would have been hard pressed to understand a typical conversation? We should decry the structure, and the intelligibility that comes with it, that might be lost over time with casual usage, but not the addition of words into vocabulary. I mean, English couldn't even agree on a spelling system until, what... 150 years ago? Well... we still can't completely, but at least it's closer.

@ Rob....

Since when was french an acceptable/real language? :)

facebooked ?

lolwtfbbq, someone call the roflcopter

ROFL:ROFL:LOL:ROFL:ROFL:

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seriously though, I have *never* seen Facebook used as a verb anywhere, even for leet speak it just simply breaks the laws of acceptable. Is someone at Merriam Webster trying hard to get there own word into general use?

"I facebooked;" jesus wept, its not verbification, its bastardisation.

While 'w00t' may have somewhere very very far back in its (no doubt) CS roots have meant "We owned the other team", it really hasn't been the general use of it for oooh, 3 or 4 years. Its just used as an exclamation of joy, such as finding epicz lootz in WoW, or downing some boss etc, its origins do precede WoW by some considerable measure ofc.

Paris icon as I'm feeling saucy.

But...

Can it be an Adverb???

Its not w00t, its woot

and it isn't an acronym its a exclamation of pleasure, a substitute for "woohoo"

I've been using it in conversations in online games since EQ in 2000.

If its been hijacked by 1337 speak then that happened later, bit its first origins that I came across was dinging in Crushbone ("Dvinn Train to zone!!!")

"WOOT, DING!"

Re: In my experience

True, but as Calvin points out, verbing weirds language.

As for those complaining about the age of the word, this is a 'word of the year' award, not a 'new word of the year' award. Other nominees included 'quixotic', 'apathetic', 'hypocrite', 'charlatan', 'sardoodledom' and 'Pecksniffian' - all of which are considerably older than 'w00t'.

Hey, what's wrong with "blamestorming"?

I wouldn't be surprised if this term was originally coined by some pissed-off office grunt who worked for some shithead boss who couldn't wait to slough off the responsibility for his piss-poor performance on to someone else...which, I guess, would take in about 99% of corporate/office environments on both sides of The Pond™.

For nearly twenty years -- before I went independent -- I worked in graphic design shops in ad agencies and in in-house corporate shops where, as in most departments, there'd always be those meetings after proposals and projects went out the door..."post-mortem" was always the official slang, although if I recall the actual meetings -- especially if things went badly -- it was a solid hour's slagfest, like Christians and Lions, except that one or two people at a time had to take a turn at being the Christians.

Just because this corporate-image boutique outfit is claiming ownership of the term "blamestorming", that doesn't necessarily mean they _originated_ it; they more than likely overheard some grunt in the office using it. It just doesn't sound "contrived" enough, if you know what I mean...conceptually and phonetically, it comes out really naturally...not like, say, "team-building exercise".

@Eric Olson

The clue is in the name, English! You do whatever you want to American but leave our language alone.

When living in the US of A I heard the following on ESPN - "...he's the most goal kickingest player...". Prosecution rests m'lord.

Dive, Dive

I was actually under the impression that it was what a submarine said when it had to dive...?

w00t

All I can think of when I see it is "w00t the f00k?"

This is about as relevant...

...as the Grauniad bigging up "meh" as "The Word That's Sweeping the Internet". Yes, mate.

FWIW I first encountered "w00t" in 2003 and I'm sure it was a museum piece even then.

Its Good to See

Personally I think this is great, all our younguns are getting back in to doing algbra again, w00t seems to be a splendid equation. I would like to question the advisability of putting in a dictionary though, surely the maths text book would be a proper place

yours

the Apathetic Charlatan

canhas l33tsp33k

omg wtf roflmao bbq hax!111!!1!11!111 u r teh pwnt11!

seling gold n lewt wow us dollrz only plz

how i mine 4 fish?

kthxbye

It's official...

Please stop using the word "official".

It's officially used up.

Cheers.

@ Eddie Edwards

No, you've evidently just been shopping with I Want One Of Those (or, iwoot.com) far too often.

But seriously. "Facebooked"? That's right up there with "blogosphere".

OK, wtf?

since when was w00t an acronym?

Leetspeak...

... is an "esoteric computer hacker language"?

WTF LOL? More like a low-down lamer gamer language that is fracking annoying.

Apparently we have entered the end times where being able to type stoopid in gamerZ chatZ in order to look kewl (i.e. not living in the parent's bedroom) is the sure indicator that one has some technical skillz.

That should shorten thos job interviews nicely.

"Do you speak l33t?"

"YO, D00D"

"Great. When can you start?"

KILL!! KILL!!!!

Signal Cancelling Technology

"Woot" has been around at least since the'70's. At least that's when I first encountered it.

"Ut", "Woot". and "Zut" were the three most used exclamations by the Super Hero the Flaming Carrot, "The strangest man alive", written and illustrated by Bob Burden.

(Both the artist and his creation were my childhood heros, which probably explains a lot)

All this type of

thing was designed to defeat word matching ala carnivore (FBI) or to allow gloating in on line games which the moderators wouldn't tolerate stuff like yeah beat the shit out of you, we own you etc, w00t and pwnd came from that so since none of you ever heard of a mud or were worried about having your doings indexed by the FBI you know absolutely nothing doesn't surprise me a bit.

@Kenny Millar @laird cummings

Whoa, take 'er easy there, Pilgrim.

At least they keep the boot in the right place: in the rear.

Ahem...

I wooted.

*sigh*

WTF....

'w00t' = We've got r00T. Old *.nix hacking term from the 70's....