Upon reading this article, I just feel like my English teachers are huddled up in a corner, crying themselves to sleep.
You Can Now Find "Woot" in a Dictionary
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A Canadian watching England stuggle with their language is like a kid watching their granpa go senile. :clunncal said:
Sir, I must respectfully ask you to kindly look at the post I am quoting beneath this quote.The Great JT said:
This is the most brilliant response I've seen in my many years on the internet.Chamale said:
Congratulations Sir, you know are the proud owner of a internet.
W00t was the Merriam Webster's 2007 word of the year, also. If it's a word, at least spell in with letters. I mean where is "*%$@#&!" (noun: expression of grief or malice) going to be in the dictionary? Before "A"? After "Z"? In "A" as asterisk starts with an "A"?
This is madness! MADNESS!!!
This is madness! MADNESS!!!
Woot? WOOT?! They're willing to do this to our precious language?!
...and I won't even axe why they haven't added embiggen yet.
...and I won't even axe why they haven't added embiggen yet.
Mankini's inclusion is far more important than any of that nonsense.Brian Albert said:You Can Now Find "Woot" in a Dictionary
The <a href=http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Concise-Oxford-English-Dictionary/Oxford-Dictionaries-Staff/e/9780199601080?r=1&cm_mmc=Google%20Product%20Search-_-Q000000630-_-Concise%20Oxford%20English%20Dictionary-_-9780199601080>Concise Oxford English Dictionary has officially been updated with a healthy dose of internet lingo.
Published this month, the twelfth edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary has been updated to include over 400 new words. Among them are "retweet," "woot," "noob," "cyberbullying," "sexting," and many others related to social media and internet culture. "Mankini" also made the cut, thankfully.
"Retweet that picture of me in my mankini or I'll sext and cyberbully you, noob!" is now a proper English sentence.
The dictionary has also been updated with new definitions for the words "follower" and "friend" - the latter being ridiculously diluted by a certain social network. These additions, according to the folks behind it, "are just carrying on the tradition of a dictionary that has always sought to be progressive and up to date."
It's important to note many of these words were already part of Oxford's online dictionary. The printed version in which these additional words will appear requires more time and deliberation between volumes.
So, what does this mean for you, the gamer?
If you've played Call of Duty: Black Ops for, oh, any period of time, you've certainly encountered homophobic, sexist, and racist children (and adults, too, sadly) who spit countless internet epithets your way without regard for the English language.
Well, they're still homophobic, sexist, and racist. But now, thanks to the modernization of the dictionary, many of their insults will at least constitute proper English. So there's that.
Source: Oxford Dictionaries via <a href=http://digitallife.today.com/_news/2011/08/18/7407194-retweet-woot-and-cyberbullying-added-to-dictionary?GT1=43001>Digital Life
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I remember my parents' monstrous dictionary that sat on its own pedastle in the living room when I was a kid informed me that "careful speakers do not use 'ain't." This didn't deter my racist, sexist, homophobic aunt from using "ain't."
Among all these, I only find "cyberbullying", "retweet" to be acceptable. Also, I tolerate "woot" and "sexting" to some extent, but only if they're clearly labelled to be an "abbreviation" and a "contraction" respectively.
An example of a good definition, to me, would be: "Woot: Internet/SMS language slang, abbreviation of "We Own the Other Team", a vindictive phrase to express success in a competitive environment, such as traditional sports or its place of origin, eSports, but can be used as an onomatopoeia to express content, due to its pronunciation being similar to a whooping sound."
I really hope this helps - to some extent - young people could create much more imaginative stories when asked to in a scholastic environment. (Not so sure about using "woot" in an essay though.)
EDIT: I don't know if many people would find this related, but here it goes:
An example of a good definition, to me, would be: "Woot: Internet/SMS language slang, abbreviation of "We Own the Other Team", a vindictive phrase to express success in a competitive environment, such as traditional sports or its place of origin, eSports, but can be used as an onomatopoeia to express content, due to its pronunciation being similar to a whooping sound."
I really hope this helps - to some extent - young people could create much more imaginative stories when asked to in a scholastic environment. (Not so sure about using "woot" in an essay though.)
EDIT: I don't know if many people would find this related, but here it goes:
That is the most optimistic outlook on this whole thing I've ever seen. I like it. Way to stay positive. And that is so going to annoy the crap out of my girlfriend the next time I play Scrabble with her. Heh.Abengoshis said:AHA! This means I have more words for scrabble.
Along with "that's what she said", the younger generation has no idea how old the term "woot" actually is.
You're proud of your country for GOOD LANGUAGE?lunncal said:
Man, you need a new country, English has the purity of a street hooker and always has.
Speaking in general, this is probably the same reaction certain snobs had to the radical shifts in language that shakespeare started (ex. turning every noun into a verb).
You realize that pretty much all modern english used to be slang at some point right? The rest was stolen from other languages.Randomeaninglessword said:
And that makes me happy, because we are letting language change instead of leaving it to the province of 17th century shut-ins that were in love with latin.Son of a Mitch said:
Also, you all need to watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY&feature=player_embedded
His commentary about the people that expect his support PARTICULARLY apply to most of the people in this thread.
I was proud of my country for many reasons, but I've always known that our language was a mix of many different ones and yes, that it is completely different to what it used to be. I have nothing against any of the words in the first post of this thread getting into the dictionary.AdumbroDeus said:
No, the reason I can't be proud any more, is...
[HEADING=2]BOOTYLICIOUS[/HEADING][sub]They seriously let a word that is a combination of "Booty" and "Delicious" into our language, and that is unforgivable.[/sub]
...you sir, just made my day...Kimarous said:
OP: Yeah! Now I can use internet lingo in class and not get the evil eye from teachers! W00T!
Well, I find your linguistic snobbery unforgivable, please leave my country, we'll be better off. I like my country bootylicious.lunncal said:
Hmph, we're clearly not going to agree on this, so any further argument would be pointless. Before I go, though, I'll just recommend you take a long shower. It's the only method I've found to alleviate the itchy-unclean feeling you get after typing that word.AdumbroDeus said: