Friday. W00t!
It’s been a hell of a week. And getting back into routine, not so good.
And work is once again hair on fire.
I’ll just say this: Happy Weekend to all!
We’ll see you Monday, same bat time, same bat channel!
Category: w00t
Here it is!
As promised, a photo of the New Mexico float in the Rose Bowl Parade, winner of the “Grand Marshal’s Trophy for excellence in creative concept and design”. w00t!
Here she is, the ‘Passport to Our World and Beyond’:
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More photos can be found at Only In New Mexico.
SFGate’s Word of the Year
Every year the San Franciso Chron’s online presence hosts a nomination and then voting for the word of the year. It’s usually a pop culture reference and this year is no exception.
Carbon footprint — The idea of calculating and then reducing or offsetting the emissions you generate has been taking off as fast as Al Gore’s second career.
Subprime — The practice of making home loans easily available to buyers who do not qualify for the best interest rates has come back to bite borrowers, lenders and the U.S. economy alike.
Surge — Proposed by Sen. John McCain, approved by President Bush, implemented by General David Petraeus, the policy of sending more troops to Iraq is either major success or ensuring an interminable war, depending on whom you believe.
Waterboarding — It’s been an interrogation technique for six centuries. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, if it’s a crossword clue, can you think of a seven-letter word that starts with a T?
Wide Stance — Sen. Larry Craig’s famous statement to police has turned this into a synonym for both a closeted, conservative gay man and a ridiculous explanation.
I don’t use any of them in normal conversation, actually. Maybe I’m tragically unhip. That has been rumored.
The winner by some 40% of the vote was Subprime. Uh…w00t!?
Gad, I’m tired of the word subprime. Maybe making it word of the year makes it go away?
Sigh.
Onward to 2008.
What would Funk and Wagnall say?
Heard on local radio talk show yesterday morning and confirmed via the AP and the Albuquerque Tribune, the Word of the Year for 2007 is:
w00t!
Yup.
Now, who am I to complain? I’m a big fan of the word. It peppers my personal emails, has made an appearance in this very blog (and here and here and….uh a few more times too….). But I’m not sure the word is Miriam-Webster worthy.
How do I feel about this? I sort of don’t like it when a slang word is legitimized. I mean…doesn’t that take some of the fun away? I love words, I really do, I’m a certified linguaphile (*wink*) but I also really love made up words. My best friend and I have a vocabulary all our own. It’s fun to bastardize words. And w00t is fun because the letters and numbers make it a word that’s not quite a word, but heck, even if you’ve never seen the word, you can get the joyous meaning when you see: w00t!!
It’s word that means what it sounds like.
If I recall my English teacher’s hardworking edumacation, that would be an onomatopoeia.
There’s my nickel word for the week. (NMSU grad in the hizz house, w00t!)
Today, it’s w00t, tomorrow it’s teh…before you know it STFU will be a part of the formal lexicon. I want to know when w00t shows up on a kid’s spelling test….
Anyhow, best to just end this post with a w00t! for the selection of w00t! as the word of the year.
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