Okay, I can see "l33t" being a bastardized "elite", but what does "w00t" mean, please? What? Woooo? It sounds like "what" but it's never used that way.
These things have been bugging me for about a decade
Not allowing youth to evolve is good parenting? -EVERY generation has done this (it's just the first time it's digital) and it is a way to set themselves apart from old people -a necessary part of growing up actually- and forbidding them to use this 'language of youth' in your presence is the perfect way to shut yourself out of their lives!Also good parenting
(Everything in moderation though.)
My kids talk to me all the time so I know I'm doing something right.
"In Before The Lock."
None of the things mentioned in this thread really bug me, but the
I agree. It's a very juvenile kind of emoticon, like one is arguing with a 13 year-old.
, I was of course being (a bit) facetious. earlier -but you do get my point I hope -plus- the example you mentioned has almost double the number of characters in the 'correct spelling' version -I wouldn't even bother texting anything that cumbersome unless I had a full qwerty-board to do it on; If I'd been a kid today and my mum that insisting she just wouldn't get a lot of texts from me...
<-------- Actually I like to use that Smilie and would not want to see it eliminated. But I only use it to demonstrate my contempt for other people's behavior off the board, specifically celebrities. From time to time I will utilize it to express exasperation with myself also. But I would never use it in reference to a member here. That would be rude.Nice to hear macloudt
See, that's where your example falls apart - you wouldn't type it without a QWERTY keyboard (and so would I) - but we're old, we don't like typing text messages with T9 and the like. Kids these days, they don't have a problem with that, so they don't even care if it takes five, six or seven more characters per message to please their momNice to hear macloudt
Okay, I can see "l33t" being a bastardized "elite", but what does "w00t" mean, please? What? Woooo? It sounds like "what" but it's never used that way.
These things have been bugging me for about a decade
w00t
1 - An expression of joy and excitement.
2 - w00t was originally an acronym for "we owned other team" but used 1337$p34|< for some of the letters(w00t instead of woot). It is now commonly used as an interjection of joy.
(http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=w00t)
What drives me nuts about w00t isn't its origin, but how 99% of German internet kiddies use it.Okay, I can see "l33t" being a bastardized "elite", but what does "w00t" mean, please? What? Woooo? It sounds like "what" but it's never used that way.
These things have been bugging me for about a decade
w00t
1 - An expression of joy and excitement.
2 - w00t was originally an acronym for "we owned other team" but used 1337$p34|< for some of the letters(w00t instead of woot). It is now commonly used as an interjection of joy.
(http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=w00t)
I find definition #2 highly suspect. It sounds like a backronym. In the original context where I saw it, it was really just a corruption of "woo!" My suspicion is that it's one of those things that originated as a typo (like "pwned") and went viral. I'm speaking of the "t" on the end, of course.
W00t!
