Jun 10 2009Noob Not Millionth Word Of English Language After All. No, Apparently Now It's 'Web 2.0'
Remember last month when I reported 'noob' was going to be the millionth English word introduced into dictionaries? Well apparently I was lied to (you bitch!), and now the honor goes to 'Web 2.0', which is pretty effed up considering it's half numeral.
The buzzword that heralded the new age of social networking on the internet, Web 2.0, has been crowned the one millionth English word by a US-based language monitoring group.
The Texas-based Global Language Monitor (GLM) acknowledges new words once they have been used 25,000 times on media and social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. It predicts that a new English-language word is created every 98 minutes.
You know what, I'm tired of this honky-tonk flip-flopping bullshit. I suggest we start a rumor that Geekologie is actually the millionth word in the English language. It's sure as hell a whole lot more believable than noob and web 2.0. As a matter of fact, I already defined it in an earlier post.
Geekologie n, v (2008)
1. the study of all things geek
Dude, this college sucks, you can't even get a Geekologie degree.
2. to utterly destroy someone else and prove your dominance, similar to pwn
Suck it, sucker, I just beat your Bomberman high score. You got Geekologied!
3. to teabag a passed out roommate who forgot to take his shoes off
Quick, grab the video camera -- I'm gonna Geekologie Davey!
Now, go forth and spread the news, LEST I HAVE TO GEEKOLOGIE THAT ASS.
'Web 2.0' is one millionth English word [msn]
Thanks to jawn and draw, who just wrote Merriam Webster and told them to suck it.
Reader Comments
1. naas - June 10, 2009 3:10 PM
I don't believe that one, blasphemy I tell ya... noobs
2. naas - June 10, 2009 3:11 PM
..that is effed up - effed in the aye! Web 2.0 isn't a word, it's a short phrase or title
3. Leonidas - June 10, 2009 3:11 PM
At the risk of sounding like one of these anti-American idiots, real English already has like a gajillion words. Sorry Texas.
4. 24-bit whore - June 10, 2009 3:13 PM
...or a class old people take after Web 1.0 aka 'teh interwebz fah dummayz'.
5. STOMPY - June 10, 2009 3:14 PM
http://www.geekologie.com/2008/10/questionable_disappearing_pool.php#comment-114358
Not really an accurate title anyways. Who is to say exactly when a word hits 25,000 uses... I don't think even the interwebs can account for everything...
6. naas - June 10, 2009 3:14 PM
@3 do you think gajillion is one of those words?
7. naas - June 10, 2009 3:15 PM
haha wtf stompy, I'm getting morion sickness
8. naas - June 10, 2009 3:16 PM
MOTION sickness.... can't even see the keys on this laptop correctly now
9. Leonidas - June 10, 2009 3:16 PM
Oi Stompy! What's this endless looping comment thing you're trying to do?!
10. 24-bit whore - June 10, 2009 3:17 PM
@8 I don't think you post enough on this website
11. STOMPY - June 10, 2009 3:17 PM
ha, lets use the word morion 25,000 times so naas doesn't have to feel embarassed...
12. naas - June 10, 2009 3:17 PM
I don't, I know
13. Leonidas - June 10, 2009 3:18 PM
Gajillion is, in fact, the real millionth word. Word number one-million-and-one is "gaysian."
14. naas - June 10, 2009 3:19 PM
lolz my head is spinnnnning how many times does that thing go?
15. STOMPY - June 10, 2009 3:20 PM
@9
Sorry, i just now learned you can url a specific post and gave it a go...
16. naas - June 10, 2009 3:22 PM
Hey how about another comme..... I wouldn't like a morion if you did stompy, because morion is likely word number 'one million and two' in the real english language
17. naas - June 10, 2009 3:23 PM
wouldn't feel like... I am cutting off both arms after this, you're welcome
18. STOMPY - June 10, 2009 3:24 PM
folks, look up the word morion in the dictionary and there is a picture of naas, and probably my mom and a jar of anal lube in the background....
19. Leonidas - June 10, 2009 3:26 PM
It's actually pretty cool—I've never seen that post about the vampire woman... Naas, you check this one out for drug-fueled vertigo horror: http://www.geekologie.com/2007/04/never_ending_stairs.php
20. naas - June 10, 2009 3:27 PM
thsui iss rttrue... trpying with blooddy armtsum srmstumps on meesssy laaptpo
21. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - June 10, 2009 3:28 PM
Sweet Zombie Jesus, STOMPY! That almost made me puke with delight!
22. STOMPY - June 10, 2009 3:28 PM
http://www.geekologie.com/2009/06/noob_not_millionth_word_of_eng.php#comment-114386
23. STOMPY - June 10, 2009 3:29 PM
damn, i was trying to loop comments together to see if i could bring down the interwebs so i can go home early...
24. FIRSTTARD - June 10, 2009 3:31 PM
FIRST!
25. naas - June 10, 2009 3:33 PM
stiillll bleedding, buut theyy'er growwign bak liek jeeb;s heead in MMIB
26. Daisy - June 10, 2009 3:36 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene int he movie Never Back down where Max gave Baja some druigs and then sold her to spiderman to use for a week as a sex slave. After he let her go, she was farting webs for a week, which made her underwear very interesting.
27. HunnyBear - June 10, 2009 3:36 PM
wow thats pretty lame
28. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - June 10, 2009 3:37 PM
http://www.geekologie.com/2009/06/noob_not_millionth_word_of_eng.php#comment-114395
29. naas - June 10, 2009 3:38 PM
Sweet, new arms
30. Freddy K - June 10, 2009 3:40 PM
Nice Stompy... nice.
31. J. C. Montgomery - June 10, 2009 3:45 PM
So Geekologie comments have now become naas and STOMPY's personal message board?
32. naas - June 10, 2009 3:46 PM
@31 seems that way today
33. GINORMAGANTUAN - June 10, 2009 3:47 PM
who gives a SH*T?
34. 24-bit whore - June 10, 2009 3:51 PM
Yeah who gives a SH*T!? Don't be a pissy morion @31 you can jump in ther..here anyTIME.
35. naas - June 10, 2009 3:53 PM
@31 this post is about words & the english language and THATS WHAT WE'RE DOING, and by that I mean using it (dont listen to thewhore)
36. GINORMAGANTUAN - June 10, 2009 3:53 PM
da|\/|n... i have been away from this geekologie blog for a while...... where's thumperchicca's sweet @ss?
37. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - June 10, 2009 3:55 PM
I can't get the circular reference to work. I need more time! @31 bite my shiny metal ass!
38. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - June 10, 2009 3:56 PM
@36
She goes by Packet Full Of SOM-T now. She's still around.
39. naas - June 10, 2009 4:02 PM
@19 thanks for that ref, checked it as I was lobbin the old arms off
40. J. C. Montgomery - June 10, 2009 4:04 PM
Cool guys. I wasn't sure about the rules here.
41. GLADIATOR - June 10, 2009 4:09 PM
Bullcrap .... how can the new word contain a numeral in it ....
so freaking gay!
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42. Anon - June 10, 2009 4:11 PM
Ah a US company decided this.
Makes sense now, especially the use of standardization in the pic.
43. naas - June 10, 2009 4:17 PM
@40 no problemo, the rules are posted right above where you're typing your comment
44. venort - June 10, 2009 4:46 PM
it was almost noob... but no, it's web 2.0... to hell with this language, jetzt spreche ich deutsch.
45. Wes - June 10, 2009 5:22 PM
web 2.0...
i refuse to recognize it as a word.
46. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - June 10, 2009 5:31 PM
Bullshit! You can't tack a number to the end of a word to make it create a new word.
47. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - June 10, 2009 5:41 PM
36 - Hey there you horny bastard. How's life?
~Tchica
48. Chris - June 10, 2009 6:01 PM
Since when the hell did phrases become words? thats like saying "you're gay" can become a word cause im sure thats been used like 50 bazillion quaradillion nillion times on the intraveb. hell.. ANY PHRASE should become a dictionary word..
what a web 2.0 thing to do..
49. Chris - June 10, 2009 6:02 PM
that's bull crap. that's not even a word.
50. qbert - June 10, 2009 6:04 PM
what kind of ****ing noob considers 'web 2.0' a single word, FAIL
51. Watch-303 - June 10, 2009 7:05 PM
@1 its not blasphemy, it means the dictionary hasn't given in to a breaking down of the english language and contribute to the verbal retardation of society through stupid leetspeak.
52. Watch-303 - June 10, 2009 7:06 PM
Also web 2.0 isn't a word.
53. AllisWell - June 10, 2009 8:00 PM
not until it appears in the OED (which it won't because one of the criteria is that an OED must be one word not four) will I accept this.
@51 verbal retardation is a bit harsh..evolution is possibly more accurate.
54. austinkk - June 10, 2009 8:26 PM
"LEST I HAVE TO GEEKOLOGIE THAT ASS." would this be definition 2 or 3?
55. Dishy dish wish - June 10, 2009 8:59 PM
Jeezeff, it's a word if you spel it webtopointo. Ur given me moran sickness.
56. nciola - June 10, 2009 8:59 PM
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaoooooooooooooooooooeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
57. WHOAAA - June 11, 2009 12:52 AM
I wanna go geekologie Daisy.
58. Boba_1904 - June 11, 2009 2:37 AM
thats effing BS!
i think this is the first time i have ever even seen the "word" "Web 2.0"
59. Ginormagantuan - June 11, 2009 4:19 AM
You know...... same old same old, urrday dreaming of draggin the ol' meatstick through your sewer pipe. other than that it's been good....... hey got a raise last month! kachow! 2% more baby!!!!!
60. Captain - June 11, 2009 6:41 AM
Must See!!!
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61. CantBeTrue - June 11, 2009 7:14 AM
This CAN'T be right. I can not and will not believe it. They base this announcement on the fact their software has detected 25,000 uses of the word "Web 2.0" on the Internet?
"Web 2.0" was reportedly first used in 1999[1]. There's no way it's only just been used for the 25,000th time in TEN YEARS.
Some other report recently said that "noob" was going to be the millionth English word.
Lie, damned lies, and may Dawkins have pity on your souls.
[1] DiNucci, D. (1999). "Fragmented Future". Print 53 (4): 32.
62. Andrew T.S. Bedgood - June 11, 2009 10:51 AM
Seriously? Web 2.0 is like 4 words (web two point oh (or zero...)) that are already in the English language.
63. Darth - June 11, 2009 5:45 PM
Web 2.0 isn't a real word.They probably mean webtwo.
64. Bobeyo - June 12, 2009 8:27 PM
Regardless of its disputed status as a word, Web 2.0 is gay anyway, just because it's a silly, trite, meaningless catchphrase that corporate executives like to flaunt around to sound "in." Anyone who takes it seriously is a moron. Or a morion, whichever.
65. English speaking Englishman - June 13, 2009 7:05 PM
''English word by a US-based''
US Based!? then it's the 1millionth 'Merican word..not English...stupid 'Mercans uf you're gonna steal a languange don't ARSE about with it by adding 'words' that aren't words...morons.
66. nick - June 17, 2009 8:43 PM
its not like it matters its just the US english dictionary, they have heaps wrong in it anyways. now the Oxford or Cambridge dictionaries.... they are dictionaries.