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Same as Dag. I can't recall ever saying WOOT! out loud in real life. I can recall saying it over ventrillo while playing MMORPGS, or Counter Strike.
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I've got a friend at work who says w00t when work slows down. But he's in the navy, so does he count as a real life person?
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I say w00t when something really works out my way. It's mostly to friends though since we're all nerds anyways.
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and I have said "lol" out loud again while on ventrillo.
I imagine if I was with a bunch of computer gaming nerds, especially WOW ones, I would not be hard to prod those words out of me again.
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I've said woot, though after I say it I always tend to think "Why did I say that?", but I've never said "lol" outloud.
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to be fair I never said it in real life until after it had already been done in my presence by a very attractive female classmate. So I figure if the fairer of the two sexes can do it then surely a gaming geek of a guy can get away with it also.
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I've used various forms of 1337speak in real life, such as w00t, lol, brb, 1337, t3h, etc. etc.
It helps that I'm a teenaged guy who spends lots of time on the computer, and that I often spend time with people with similar traits. Posts: 1466 | Registered: Jan 2003
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I say "Squee" This is because I am a dork and I get happy when I hear cool songs or someone promises me chocolate.
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I've said Woot out loud before, and have once or twice said "lol," only to have the verbal smack down laid on me by friends.
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Well, at least w00t is pretty much pronounced woot. I've never said it out loud--actually, I'm not sure I've ever even typed it--but I can imagine the possiblity of saying it.
On the other hand, when I see LOL I don't think "ell oh ell," I think "laughing out loud," so I would never just say "LOL" in real life. Same with BRB--in my mind, that is pronounced "be right back" so if I said it out loud, that's what I'd say!
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w00p, Whoop, wewp. We didn't have w00t when I was IRCing, just latent Douglas Adams references. I always suspected woot derived from woop.
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I've used lol in real life conversations, but I have a slight advantage over all of you. Because in my mother tongue lol is actually a word. And fortunately its meaning isn't that far removed from 'laughing out loud'
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quote:Originally posted by kojabu: I think I may have said it once or twice. I tend to go "wee" more than anything else.
I've said "woot" but I'm more likely to say "Yaaay!".
But I do refrain from doing the little "prayer-hands" clap when I say it, 'cause that would be, you know, really gay. Posts: 6394 | Registered: Dec 1999
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*snorts* Yeah I've said woot, probably in all sorts of contexts. I've also /squee'ed and have been known to utter an occassional 'Double you tee eff!' or 'Oh em gee!'
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I've never said woot in normal conversation. I do say pwn'd about 100 times a day, though. It really annoys my little brother. Posts: 1594 | Registered: Apr 2006
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I have also used "teh" in conjunction with a particular 4 letter explative.
I have also said "WTF" (though in fairness, I was pointing at a truck that was part of the "WTF" truck line. I'm sure it was named before the acronym came into vogue)
My vocabulary is starting to look like Barrens chat...
On a side note: Woot! My dobie is bigger than the original thread!
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