w00t!

[heidi]

On lunch break from training session. Learned that w00t is Word of the Year, according to Merriam-Webster.

And yes, they're spelling it with the two 0's.

I am amused, and not just because the fictionalley Cafe Press store has had w00t shirts since 2003. I am also fearful of the fact that we now need to consider allowing dictionary-approved l33t-speak in fics and the Park!

Wibble. What next, t00bs?

Comments

[smilie117.livejournal.com]

O_o /:)

[tobymalfoy.livejournal.com]

:O!

[servalan.livejournal.com]

Reading this article, I was distracted from the utter wrongness of "w00t" even making it into the Merriam-Webster. I couldn't read the article becuase the Schroedinger's LOLcat pic was so utterly brilliant. Like, I know the destruction of lines between high and vulgar English is way more important, but Schroedinger's LOLcat is such a great concept. **pedant with no sense of proportion, apparently**

Thank you for sharing this amusing travesty.

[sundancekid.livejournal.com]

Haha, that makes sense, since things aren't usually recongized as trends until the trend is over (not that people have stopped saying "w00t," but it's not a thing like it used to be).

[leni-jess.livejournal.com]

And I still don't know what the damn thing means! (Er. Not that I especially care...) Just like l33t and t00b! At leat acronyms usually come good.