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Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Pugnate on Wednesday, December 12, 2007, 10:40:05 PM

Title: w00t is NOT a word.
Post by: Pugnate on Wednesday, December 12, 2007, 10:40:05 PM: http://www.joystiq.com/2007/12/12/w00t-is-merriam-websters-word-of-the-year/

And how is it word of the year? Aren't they ten years late to the party?

So a dictionary has now made a word that uses numbers an official word. That's b.s.
Title: Re: w00t is NOT a word.
Post by: Xessive on Wednesday, December 12, 2007, 10:43:09 PM: Wow. That is pretty retarded. It may as well have been "pwned" or "teh" which are typos anyway.
Title: Re: w00t is NOT a word.
Post by: Pugnate on Wednesday, December 12, 2007, 11:00:51 PM: Well they aren't always teh typos. :P

But yes, what next?
Title: Re: w00t is NOT a word.
Post by: idolminds on Wednesday, December 12, 2007, 11:34:01 PM: Quote from: Pugnate on Wednesday, December 12, 2007, 11:00:51 PM
Well they aren't always teh typos. :P
pwnd
Title: Re: w00t is NOT a word.
Post by: Cobra951 on Thursday, December 13, 2007, 11:03:17 AM: I read about this already. "Stupid" should be the word of the year, even if it's not new.
Title: Re: w00t is NOT a word.
Post by: Quemaqua on Thursday, December 13, 2007, 08:51:11 PM: That should be word of the year every year.
Title: Re: w00t is NOT a word.
Post by: Ghandi on Thursday, December 13, 2007, 08:56:02 PM: Well, in all fairness, "truthiness" wasn't really a word either. But I guess this is just more egregious.