Seriously?

"W00t" is Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2007?

Seriously.

I think I hear Noah Webster spinning in his grave right now.

Was "w00t" picked by the editors, or did they let the public vote? Because if there was a poll I would have assembled a crack team to stuff the ballot boxes with words such as "quagmire," "impeach," and "lame duck." Yeah, to me those sum up 2007 much better than some esoteric gaming slang.

I mean, last year's word was "truthiness," popularized by Stephen Colbert, which is somewhat goofy. But "truthiness" can be broadly applied to the politics of 2006, as well.

But "w00t"?

I bet next year the world will be "pwned".

Yep, this is just solid proof that we're heading towards the future as seen in Mike Judge's Idiocracy.

W00t.