Webster's "US word of the year"

[Dr Mordrid]

Link....

w00t!

[Jammrock]

That's awesome. What a fun word to chose.

[TnT]

I think w00t transcends l337 speak. So it's a good choice.

[FatBastard]

Sounds like something the swedish chef would say.

[Strahd]

'w00t' crowned US word of the year...
"w00t," an expression of joy coined by online gamers, was crowned word of the year on Tuesday by the publisher of a leading US dictionary.

It is like saying "yay," the dictionary said.

Wouldn't it take less time to text message yay than it would to message w00t?

Come on people...Let's get lazier.

[Nowhere]

Yeah...and isn't this mostly a "person of the year"-like stunt that Time did a year ago?

edit: wait, users voted this...who'd have guessed

BTW, I take it that "w00t" actually sounds good for native speakers? You should be thankfull for that...here it's very common that "internet words" are normal words stripped of beyond comprehension...yes, not only without affixes, often root morpheme is stripped of jalf of letters/etc.
Soudns horrible, also as in "doesn't seem right for the brain" and...is popular :/


edit 2:

"People look for self-evident numeral-letter substitutions: 0 for O; 3 for E; 7 for T; and 4 for A," he said. "This is simply a different and more efficient way of representing the alphabetical character."

Wait...what?!

[cjolley]

The only thing I have to say is w00t it's self.

[Strahd]

The only thing I have to say is w00t it's self.

W00t the deuce?