12-13-2007, 10:38 AM
I see that we're rapidly approaching that number!
:w00tbounce::w00tbounce:
Just figured I would help it along!
:w00tbounce::w00tbounce:Just figured I would help it along!
12-13-2007, 11:04 AM
Amy, just for a minute I thought it was YOUR 20,000th post. 
Congratulations to US.
w00t
(the official WORD for 2007).
Congratulations to US.
w00t
(the official WORD for 2007).12-13-2007, 11:24 AM
Jeez - give me a little credit! I'm not at 20,000 YET.
I noticed that w00t was the official word of 2007! Wonder why?
I noticed that w00t was the official word of 2007! Wonder why?
12-13-2007, 03:12 PM
12-13-2007, 03:37 PM
grimsby5 Wrote:
What means w00t?
How do we pronounce it?
How do we pronounce it?
Smilies those yellow thingies :w00t::w00t::w00t::w00t:
12-13-2007, 08:19 PM
grimsby5 Wrote:
What means w00t?
How do we pronounce it?
How do we pronounce it?
w00t (interjection)
expressing joy (it could be after a triumph, or for no reason at all); similar in use to the word "yay"
w00t! I won the contest!
The kids around here say it "with at-ti-tude" 
--- whoot ! ! ----- rhyming it with shoot
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year 2007
http://www.m-w.com/info/07words.htm
partial from the site:
Quote:
-------but its inclusion in our online Open Dictionary, along with the top honors it's now been awarded—might just improve its chances. This year's winning word first became popular in competitive online gaming forums as part of what is known as l33t ("leet," or "elite") speak—an esoteric computer hacker language in which numbers and symbols are put together to look like letters. Although the double "o" in the word is usually represented by double zeroes, the exclamation is also known to be an acronym for "we owned the other team"—again stemming from the gaming community
The 9 runner-up words are listed at the link
Can see myself using word # 5
Like 6 & 8 just because they are fun to say 
and can also see some prior years - 2006 was --------
truthiness (noun)
1 : "truth that comes from the gut, not books" (Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," October 2005)
2 : "the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true"
Well gee, when you put it that way, wouldn't we all prefer our own "truthiness" ?