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- cloudboy, on 12/12/2007, -4/+192I, for one, welcome our new illiterate overlords.
- evil-doer, on 12/12/2007, -5/+88As someone thats IRCed from about 1992 onwards, I can tell you without a doubt that the term "w00t" peaked around 1994.
- mrASSMAN, on 12/12/2007, -1/+62Might as well stick 'pwned' in there as well..
- Xerone, on 12/12/2007, -1/+58No, it won the contest of the word that best describes 2007. It hasn't been added to the dictionary. "The word you've selected hasn't found its way into a regular Merriam-Webster dictionary yet..."
- wibambau, on 12/12/2007, -2/+48kittah says, " I can haz numb3rs in mai w0rdz, w00t! "
- supermanred, on 12/12/2007, -2/+46"Me fail English? That's unpossible!"
- Ralf Wiggum - bullsfan03, on 12/12/2007, -3/+27good point. I completely forgot about the reply button.
- dinostabOMG, on 12/12/2007, -0/+23You win the internets.
- dinostabOMG, on 12/12/2007, -0/+20Counterstrike? Are you kidding? I'd be surprised if you couldn't find it in Chaucer.
- gnmae, on 12/12/2007, -2/+20You have to be kidding me.
- xptoast, on 12/12/2007, -0/+17I love the world unpossible. Its unpossible not to.
- emc86, on 12/12/2007, -0/+17The funny thing is that you misspelled "Ralph".
- Matri, on 12/12/2007, -0/+14You hear that? That's the sound of the joke flying over your head.
- Krippy, on 12/12/2007, -1/+13Didn't it originally mean We Owned Other Team?
- affanjam, on 12/12/2007, -2/+13just to let you know...pundi in tamil(language) means pussy
- jeffchuck, on 12/12/2007, -2/+13Title is inaccurate: "The word you've selected hasn't found its way into a regular Merriam-Webster dictionary yet"
- TomK88, on 12/12/2007, -7/+16w00t...first time I remember hearing it is back in the old Counter-Strike days when it first came out. I know l337 speak originated from "hackers" but was there a game before CS that adopted it?
- evil-doer, on 12/12/2007, -0/+9yes it had both lan play and 1 on 1 play via telephone modem. there was other ways that came later as well
- inactive, on 12/12/2007, -0/+9Is our children learning?
- inactive, on 12/12/2007, -0/+9the only one getting slaughtered is you noob
- DiamondIce, on 12/12/2007, -0/+9Could be. Some people think it came from MUDs where it was a corruption of loot.
- lolSTG, on 12/12/2007, -0/+8How long before Scrabble adds numbers?
5cr48813 anyone? - INTERNETMASTER, on 12/12/2007, -1/+9l337 speek existed long before halo ever began cursing gamers with its atrocious low quality generic bottom of the barrel lowest common denominator gameplay. halo has more in common with alcohol poisoning and mcdonalds hamburgers than anything else.
- GoatMonkey2112, on 12/12/2007, -2/+10"Didn't it originally mean We Owned Other Team?"
That would be WPOT. - evil-doer, on 12/12/2007, -0/+8yeah, players of doom. doom 1..
- qwertydvorak, on 12/12/2007, -0/+8noob should be in there instead. if pwn ever makes it i may have to break something.
- inactive, on 12/12/2007, -1/+9http://www.merriam-webster.com/info/07words.htm
- w00t4me, on 12/12/2007, -0/+7our children r teh lern. lolz
- jmreid, on 12/12/2007, -2/+9me? i going to not.
- yetAnotherCroc, on 12/12/2007, -0/+6Except now that their language has been recognised they are no longer illiterate. Now we just have to officially recognise and give out diplomas in Flaming 101, 102 (includes advanced subjects like spamming and astroturfing), Creative spelling and grammar 101 and Ninja stealing and they will not only be literate. They'll be educated! Welcome to the future.
- Dracusis, on 12/12/2007, -0/+6Internet vs Dictionary.
Dictionary gets pwned. - inactive, on 12/12/2007, -0/+6that would be Uber.
- Spamcan, on 12/12/2007, -0/+5"Unaware of what year it was Joe wandered the streets desperate for help, but the English language had deteriorated into a hybrid of hillbilly, valley girl, inner city slang and various grunts."
- DigitAl56K, on 12/12/2007, -0/+5F&*# Merriam-Webster! I say we all start using the letter O instead of the number 0, and capitalizing the first letter of every new sentence just to teach them a lesson!
- inactive, on 12/12/2007, -0/+5uh, I'm sure YOU brought the word back. Thanks.
- BTime, on 12/12/2007, -1/+6Merriam-Webster is trying it's hardest to become irrelevant. The first sign of doom was inducting Rachel Ray-isms, so here we are at the slippery slope.
- praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -0/+5I pronounce "uber" sans umlaut as "oober", just like Ubuntu is "ooboontoo"
Also, with umlaut and German pronunciation it'd sound more like "ewbeh" - Beakerz, on 12/12/2007, -0/+4That guy pissed his pants...
- DavidGX, on 12/12/2007, -0/+4W00t down, L33t to go.
- SemiSarcastic, on 12/12/2007, -2/+6What? No pwnzor?
- MrFisty, on 12/12/2007, -0/+4You? Not getting laid? Say it ain't so.
- wearescience, on 12/12/2007, -0/+4What kind of game is Chaucer? Was that an FPS too?
- Matri, on 12/12/2007, -0/+4I am simultaneously amused and horrified by your cynical yet eerily accurate prediction of the future.
- carpespasm, on 12/12/2007, -0/+3sounds more like an onomatopoeia that got backronymed.
- arbulus, on 12/12/2007, -0/+3I HATE when people say it "uhbuhntoo"
- hockey, on 12/12/2007, -0/+3They added EVOO which is an acronym for Extra Virgin Olive Oil. She uses it in nearly everything she cooks and got tired of saying "Extra Virgin Olive Oil" all the time so she just says "EVOO".
- imikedaman, on 12/12/2007, -0/+3You can have him, he's yours.
- brentinkc, on 12/12/2007, -4/+7All retarded. This is the true evil behind video gaming. The ruthless slaughter of the English language.
- fyrehart, on 12/12/2007, -0/+3Well the woot on Merriam-Webster's site actually uses zeros...
- supermanred, on 12/12/2007, -0/+3I'm still waiting for them to add *****.
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