Merriam-Webster's word of '07: w00t!

[kayling]

"W00t" was among 20 nominees in a list of the most-searched words in Merriam-Webster's online dictionary and most frequently submitted terms from users of its "open dictionary."

The choice did not make Allan Metcalf, executive secretary of the American Dialect Society, say "w00t."

"It's amusing, but it's limited to a small community and unlikely

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[intrikate88]

Yeah, I think it's been three years since it snowed here... am I farther north than you? I'm about twenty minutes north of Atlanta. I think y'all have weather off the Gulf though, too, right? *is, and always has been, mystified by weather patterns*

Yay for good grades! I don't think mine are posted yet. I want to see them.

I read most of the His Dark Materials trilogy. I'm stuck in the middle of the third at the moment. They're okay... I really don't like Phillip Pullman's writing style, because it's like he never learned how to make words flow or to actually HAVE a style. And the whole anti-God thing really doesn't feel well put together, it feels more like he didn't enjoy Chronicles of Narnia and so wrote a bastardized allegorical fantasy instead. I mean, there are some cool places in the books, and the characters are okay, but I didn't find the books all that great. I just want to see the movie for the airships and pretty steampunk things.

[kayling]

You're quite a bit further north than I am in Auburn. I'm 2 hours southwest of Atlanta, about thirty minutes inside the border of Alabama and horizontally smack dab in the middle of the state: approximately 4 hours to Huntsville in the north and 4 hours to the Gulf. I just REALLY want it to snow here before I graduate because the Quad would be most excellent for snowball fights and forts. And the fact that everything would shut down for a few days and it'd be nice and quiet and serene and really pretty. Damn you Global Warming I want snow!

My friends want to go see the Golden Compass probably this weekend, but I'm more interested in I Am Legend. TGC is something I'd rent or watch if it was free, but I Am Legend has my love (2nd after Johnny Depp) Will Smith in it, AND zombie things. Total score.

[kayling]

Lol. Not really. I mainly stick to College Life and study abroad forums on CC, the "will I get in?" threads freak me out cause all those kids are like, "OMG I ONLY MADE 2300 ON THE SAT AND ONLY HAVE A 4.3 GPA AND ONLY HAVE FOUR EC'S WHERE I'M AN OFFICER!!! WILL I GET IN ANYWHERE OR AM I DOOMED TO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOREVER?!?!" The college life people are at least semi-normal most of the time, even if that Deluxe Hardballer guy is the biggest douche I've ever seen in my life. And I basically skip over all the posts on college_help that are "will I get in?" ones too; I stick to posts like yours and stuff where people are asking about things once they're actually IN college or at least already accepted.