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Postby Innari » Wed Dec 12, 2007 6:34 pm

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Postby Dasubervixen » Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:51 pm

w00t!

My 30th post here. :)
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Postby Tarryk » Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:59 pm

"There have been lots of whimsical coinages of words over the years, most of which disappear rather quickly," said Metcalf, an English professor at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Ill.

"W00t" didn't make him exclaim in enthusiasm.

"It's amusing, but it's limited to a small community and unlikely to spread and unlikely to last," he said.

What's not amusing is that you actually teach people.

*smack smack smack*

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Postby meik » Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:19 pm

If the size of the community that uses a word is a determining factor on if it should be accepted and added to the dictionary, perhaps they should remove some words that are no longer used except by a few geeky (not derogitory) academics. I would guess.. and this would be an interesting study, that more people use the word "woot" in the english language then their word of the day "harry".

I mean, are their words any more deserving of being in there just because they were coined earlier?

Anyway, we struggle on.
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Postby Hais » Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:01 pm

I heard about this earlier today, on the radio at my bosses place... on a station that has it's demographic as over 40s.. and it even gave the definition of w00t... apparently the correct spelling is double zero, not double o
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Postby Innari » Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:10 pm

I refuse to put the double-zero. I just can't bring myself to do it. *laughs*
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Postby Shigy » Fri Dec 14, 2007 3:38 pm

course it...its leet speak so its w00t not woot...but no is going to care that much...
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Postby Jenibell » Sat Dec 15, 2007 7:43 am

speaking of w00t

ever herd of www.woot.com
Its cool it started as a college class where they only sale on thing a day at relatively low prices... it really a cool site
Even if you dont buy anything the things they write about the products are funny
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