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next year's: PHAIL.

Are lives become more inane with each passing moment

(ahem) OUR-see what I mean?

New speak is so cool.... ermmmmm, no.

It is interesting to see every generation or group come up with their own jive and then let it infect everyone else's speech, adding some color to the lexicon, but also diluting it with garbage. In the case of wootspeak, much like Snoop speak, it can't last because its based on characters that aren't even fucking letters. Now, I'm not bashing it, it just would be really interesting for someone to come up with new speak that had legs.

Hopefully it won't hang on as long as 'at the end of the day', which has far outlived its usefulness.

And thats the shitznizzle..... How many fuckers are still using phrases like that?

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This reveals Merriam Webster is behind the times and cock-hungry for media attention.

Also, bigdinwaunakee is mistaken. It isn't generational, it's a constant progression/regression/evolution of language. As such, it is gradual and depends on how much exchange people have with groups other than their own.

Leetspeak/wootspeak will be around for as long as people use keyboards, and it evolves and spreads rapidly thanks to comment systems like this.

Merriam Webster picked a word from the new slang they could use that didn't depend on symbols and wasn't loaded with in jokes or lascivious tones - and they hope our talking about it will sell dictionaries.