What's Webster's word of the year? W00t!
What's Webster's word of the year? W00t!And, LOL, turns out you've just said Merriam-Webster's word of the year. W00t!
The folks at the dictionary asked the Web to vote on the most consequential word in 2007. "Thousands" participated, and contenders like "facebook," "conundrum," "quixotic," and "blamestorm" got pwned! Voters chose"w00t" hands-down.
"W00t" will no doubt trip up readers who are less-than-k3wl. A noob looks at "w00t" -- with its zeroes rather than Os, but still pronounced "woot" -- and wonders only, WTF?
Allow me to learn you, f00l. Though "w00t" has no official spot in the M-W, Webster's online Open Dictionary defines it this way:
1. 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!
One of Urban Dictionary's definitions says "w00t" originated among online computer gamers as an acronym for "we own the other team." Makes sense, but, you wonder, how would WOOT become w00t?
Oh man, do you not know l33t? Also called "Leetspeak," the Internet-born argot has as its hallmark the substitution of numerals for vowels -- A is 4, E is 3, I is 1, and O is 0. (The story is that the practice began as a way for hackers to thwart text searches for their conversations on online message boards.)
John Morse, M-W's president, told the Associated Press that the selection of "w00t" "shows a really interesting thing that's going on in language. It's a term that's arrived only because we're now communicating electronically with each other."
But there's already been some criticism of the choice. Ars Technica's Nate Anderson derides it as "an expression so likely to die off in the near future that I can just about see its pallbearers lining up down the hall."
Allan Metcalf, a heavy over at the American Dialect Society -- I'm sorry, the Am3r1c4n D14l3ct S0c13ty -- agrees, telling the AP that the word is "amusing, but it's limited to a small community and unlikely to spread and unlikely to last.''
O RLY? D00d, it's the word of the year -- its time is now, and so what if it won't make it to 2oo9?
Hey, take a look at previous M-W WOTY winners: "Truthiness" in 2006, "integrity" in 2005, "blog" in 2004, and "democracy" in 2003. Integrity and democracy? Yeah, like those are likely to last or to spread.
So let's enjoy w00t while we can. And to the hatas who say otherwise, Talk to the hand, suxorz! Leetspeak是代码还是象形字啊，变形变的不一般~
韦氏词典，从来没用过就直接删掉了s:89 Leet (written as 31337, 1337, and l33t), or Leetspeak, is a written form of slang (technically an argot) used primarily on the Internet, but becoming increasingly common in many online video games,<ref>Blashki & Nichol, 77-80.</ref> which uses various combinations of alphanumerics to replace proper letters. The term itself is a degenerative form of the word "elite", and the language it describes resembles a highly specialized form of electronic shorthand. At first the word leet was used as an adjective, to primarily describe the behavior or accomplishments of others in the community. In that usage, Leet generally carries the same meaning when referring to either the game prowess or, in original usage, hacking expertise of another person. From adjective form its use then expanded to include use as an expletive in reaction to a demonstration of the former qualities. With the mass proliferation of Internet use in the 1990s into the 21st century, Leet has since become a part of Internet culture and slang.<ref name=mitchell>Mitchell.</ref> Leet may also be considered a substitution cipher, albeit with much variation from user to user.
完蛋 我都翻译不懂^^ 只好转个中文翻译,不是很到位,知道意思就好了
据《国际先驱导报》报道：Leet是互联网出现后，因网际交流而衍生出的新生事物，是现有语言的一种替代品。因为英语在互联网上的应用范围最广，所以Leet也是以英语为主，英语Leet基于英语的词汇和语法，只是将26个字母用数字、符号和其它语言的字母代替，并混杂了希腊语、俄语、中文等多种语言。由上世纪80年代最初接触计算机和互联网的那批人创造，流传至今，已成为互联网上的世界语。最初它是众多黑客俚语中的一种，据说最早由黑客组织DeadCowCult创造并使用的。现在它经过20多年的发展，已经成为一种互联网上独有的语言现象，成为一种在计算机和通讯领域中流行的青年亚文化。
Leet这个词本身也是一种变体，它的意思不是这个英文词的本义“民事法庭”，而是elite（精英）的变体。使用者认为Leet是计算机高手使用的特殊符码，具有精英的意味。
Leet是一种对现有书面语言的篡改和颠覆。例如Leet这个词在Leet语言中，会被写做“l33t”或者“1337”；google用900916表示；定冠词the用th3表示。Leet由黑客发明，而其发展归功于众多的游戏玩家。因为在玩游戏期间，时间紧迫，很多时候用正常的标准英语交流耗时间，玩家们就将标准语简化、变形，比如：“Ohmygod，what the f*ck. I′m being rushed by the Imperial Guardplayer（噢，上帝，真可恶，我被皇家卫队撞了）”，这句话在游戏玩家口中就被简化成“omgwtfig”。Leet的普及则归因于资深网虫。现在Leet以及Leet的各国变体因其简捷、怪趣和时尚，被年轻人追捧，现也已进入公众视野，比如newbie（网络新手）、kekeke（出自韩语，笑的拟声词）等词汇已经被美国《新闻周刊》等主流媒体广泛使用。
最初Leet被创造出来是带有叛逆和游戏色彩的，是对现有语言文字系统的戏仿和颠覆。但因为它的特殊性，也衍生出许多特殊的用途：通过它逃避内容的审查、关键字的过滤；搜索引擎无法提取它的原意，也就无法通过传统的字句搜索到你的Leet语句，这样可以避免自己的信息泄漏（现在Google针对它专门推出了用来搜索Leet的引擎）；写情书或者暗号标记；用Leet注册密码也能保证安全性，同时也好记；最重要的是，Leet用起来很酷，年轻人觉得用Leet很炫。
目前也出现了以其它语言为主体的各国的英语Leet变体。中文的Leet也在发展，香港、台湾和内地都有人开始使用。中文Leet除了吸收英文Leet外，还发明了自己的独特方法：比如拆字法和形近法。 kekekes:258
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有点象 中文圈里的火星文现在国外语言专家也像我们国家的语言专家一样
不知道规范这些东西 是吸收还是排斥^^ 囧s:251 [quote]原帖由 [i]clumsy[/i] 于 2007-12-13 19:04 发表 [url=http://bbs.canghai.org/redirect.php?goto=findpost&pid=2196246&ptid=138323][img]http://bbs.canghai.org/images/common/back.gif[/img][/url]
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你还真能举一反三
小时候看 XX 字典的时候 觉得这个字怎么念
懒得去查 (一般也查不到)
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