Players all over the world has jargons of their own making it a common ground for anyone to have a smile at it once you read or heard online. Do you know lately that a jargon from massive-multiplayer online gamers become the word of the year? Yes it's true, base on the media release on yahoo, the word "Woot/w00t" has been recognized by Merriam Webster dictionary as "an ideal choice because it blends whimsy and new technology" as said by John Morse from Merriam Webster.
The Merriam Webster defined the word "w00t" as; a hybrid of letters and numbers used by gamers as an exclamation of happiness or triumph.
So players it doesn't mean that we speak a non-sense word anymore because we did made our own language or an expression just by sitting and chatting around the virtual community. And now we pawned the linguistic world w00t!
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