Poll: Millionth word enters the English language

[A random person]

N00b. The other words are just boring. Have some fun, it's a big event.

 

[Hamster at Dawn]

The best word in the English language is floccinaucinihilipilification.

No, the best word in the English language is Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia , aka the fear of long words.

Damn, beat me to it.
Seriously though, Web 2.0 is not even a word. It's four words if you speak it.

 

[Damien the Pigeon]

I think that "slumdog" is a much more useful word. "Web 2.0" sounds like a fly-by-night marketing term. N00b is just silly. What's next, word one million and one is "I r teh haxx0rz?"

 

[Xorghul]

N00b ftw?

Lololololololololololololololololololololololololol.

My god, 4chan has ruined everything that is civilized, we'll all return to cavemen!

Cavemen who sit around and talk smack about each others mums and screaming obscenities all day long.

The males at least. The females on the other hand might manage to stay civilised thanks to the mere fact that as soon as they approach a male it will shout "TITS or GTFO".

 

[Player 2]

I think that "slumdog" is a much more useful word. "Web 2.0" sounds like a fly-by-night marketing term. N00b is just silly. What's next, word one million and one is "I r teh haxx0rz?"

"financial tsunami" is word 1,000,001 says Malygris.

 

[Xorghul]

The best word in the English language is floccinaucinihilipilification.

do you have a deffinition?

It more or less means: the act of declaring someone worthless.

 

[Uncompetative]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8092549.stm

I was reading the news on the BBC website when I read that;
"A US web monitoring firm has declared the millionth English word to be Web 2.0, a term for the latest generation of web products and services." according to the BBC the language monitoring site said that the terms Jai ho, N00b and slumdog were also contenders to be the millionth word in the English language. There is a possibility that this word (web 2.0) will not in fact be the millionth word in the english language as "traditional dictionary makers are casting doubt on the claim and the methods behind it." So the millionth word could still be N00b and all those hours spent on xbox live could have finally achieved something.

It gets used as an "ultimate insult' against me in Halo 3 Multiplayer, just about every time I play.

 

[DigitalSushi]

The best word in the English language is floccinaucinihilipilification.

No, the best word in the English language is Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia , aka the fear of long words.

the word smiles is the longest scariest word in the English dictionary. Its a mile in between the two "S"'

Yeah I'm crap.

One of my favourite words is cow, its an unatural sounding word and it sounds funny.

 

[DigitalSushi]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8092549.stm

I was reading the news on the BBC website when I read that;
"A US web monitoring firm has declared the millionth English word to be Web 2.0, a term for the latest generation of web products and services." according to the BBC the language monitoring site said that the terms Jai ho, N00b and slumdog were also contenders to be the millionth word in the English language. There is a possibility that this word (web 2.0) will not in fact be the millionth word in the english language as "traditional dictionary makers are casting doubt on the claim and the methods behind it." So the millionth word could still be N00b and all those hours spent on xbox live could have finally achieved something.

It gets used as an "ultimate insult' against me in Halo 3 Multiplayer, just about every time I play.

What you get called Web 2.0 ?
That's digusting, how on earth you carry on playing I'll never know.

I bet your shit joke sense was tingling.

 

[gigastrike]

Wasn't there a thread a while back that said that Webster accepted "noob" as the 1,000,000th word?

 

[AfterAscon]

I was reading this earlier...

...and this story is just bollocks, the way in which words are registered is flawed. By their standards all common typos would technically be words.

It even mentions in the article:

Lexicographers say the exact size of the English vocabulary is impossible to quantify, but if every technical term or obscure specialist word is accepted then we are already beyond one million, according to our correspondent.

And if the inclusion of specialist slang is restricted, then there are possibly three quarters of a million words in English.

 

[Fingerprint]

I don't care but definitely not n00b. Why can't they introduce a genuine word not a retarded version of "newbie". I would rather be hanged, drawn and quartered vote for slumdog or jai ho as at least they sound like proper words.

jai ho sounds like a proper word?

In more of a way than "n00b" does - well at least I think so. Hell, I just realised: what does jai ho even mean?

Edit.

 

[The Young One]

None. They are incredibly stupid and don't warrant being added.

 

[Glerken]

Where's the non of the above option?
I don't really feel like having the English language murdered.

 

[Easykill]

The best word in the English language is floccinaucinihilipilification.

No, the best word in the English language is Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia , aka the fear of long words.

I'm familiar with that one. Delicious, isn't it?

 

[The Young One]

Where's the non of the above option?
I don't really feel like having the English language murdered.

Sadly it has already happened.

"Web 2.0" is a blend at best, surely?

 

[Arcyde]

Pwn is better.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

Pfft, as if bloody Jai Ho and slumdog could even hold a candle to n00b. That word's ancient compared to them.