Wordie: Woot: Comments

Comment by reesetee, 8 months ago

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:23:03 +0000

I'm with bilby. Woot is nice, even fun. On the other hand, w00t drives me batty.

I can't sue you. I don't have enough money.

Comment by bilby, 8 months ago

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:31:28 +0000

I don't mind woot as a an interjection something more forceful than hehe and lesser than wow. The zeroes are just ... dull. I mean, go into a chat room and the first thing you see are things like "any1 wanna chat", "2day" and so on. Ditto for text messages. Numbers are part of net/message speak and there's nothing Word Of The Year in that observation. BUT, they have not made any break beyond their jargon-riddled domains and show no sign of doing so. Consider the following:
"I thank for your letter confirming my employment at Bugger The World Industries and I will return the attached contract in due course. w00t. I look forward to being introduced to my new colleagues on Monday."
It just doesn't work. w00t is a discardism and internet culture is full of them. Imagine if you were unplugged tomorrow and never connected to the internet again ... would lol ever cross your mind or your lips?
The only dilemma with w00t is which b1n to dump it in. In a year I'll find it hard to remember how quickly I forgot this 'word' (and I use the term, l00sely).

Comment by chained_bear, 8 months ago

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:12:05 +0000

I like woot. Sue me.

Comment by reesetee, 8 months ago

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:18:24 +0000

True, true. But Chaucer never spelled it with two zeros, did he? Yikes.

Comment by VanishedOne, 8 months ago

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:23:41 +0000

But posting here lets us set up Chaucerian references:

'But what they were, nothyng he ne woot.
This duc his courser with his spores smoot...'

Comment by reesetee, 8 months ago

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:30:43 +0000

Yes, that's true. Oh, if only they'd waited for us to decide on Wordie's Word of the Year--it would be so much better!

Comment by postnomer, 8 months ago

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:24:47 +0000

I think I read that Merriam Webster declared w00t the word of the year...

Comment by Lampbane, 8 months ago

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:06:11 +0000

It's okay, I'm not shedding any tears over it... woot.

Comment by VanishedOne, 8 months ago

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:49:13 +0000

Oops, I completely overlooked that line. Sorry about that.

Comment by Lampbane, 8 months ago

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:45:47 +0000

VanishedOne: I already posted that link.

Comment by reesetee, 8 months ago

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:31:41 +0000

Nor have I ever been.

Comment by bilby, 8 months ago

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:17:41 +0000

I am not a wooter.

Comment by VanishedOne, 8 months ago

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:09:03 +0000

There's some nice etymological commentary on woot/w00t/whoot at The Lexicographer's Rules.

Comment by Lampbane, 8 months ago

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:29:10 +0000

Contrary to what Merriam-Webster says, this word is not an acronym for "We Owned the Other Team." (I've never even heard of that before.) That would be a backronym.

See Grant Barrett's history of the term.

Comment by AbraxasZugzwang, about 1 year ago

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:07:52 +0000

w00t used to bother me, but I've come around. I'm a cantankerous old man at the keyboard.