Tag: english

  • Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year 2007: w00t

    Thatโ€™s right. Digital Culture has exploded in large part to the success of video games and the evolution of online gaming. According to Wired.com, โ€œThis yearโ€™s winning word first became popular in competitive online gaming forums as part of what is known as l33t (โ€œleet,โ€ or โ€œeliteโ€) speakโ€”an esoteric computer hacker language in which numbers…