'Noob' among list of potential one-millionth English words, logic 'pwned'
by Ben Gilbert 
{ May 11th 2009 at 11:00PM }
We'll just let that sink in for a second. Back? Okay, so, according to The Global Language Monitor, words must be "used 25,000 times by media outlets, social networking websites and in other public sources" in order to be considered for official inclusion in the English language. If that number accounts for online multiplayer participants across PC and consoles, we're willing to bet that the word "noob" was used more than 25,000 times today alone. Here's hoping the misspelled portmanteau gets "pwned" by logic and doesn't end up as an official English word.
[Via VG247]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Einhanderkiller @ May 11th 2009 11:05PM
Dictionaries are big.
Brodo @ May 12th 2009 12:32AM
NOOB FTW!!!!
Slayer @ May 11th 2009 11:06PM
I lol'ed.
cknblade @ May 11th 2009 11:06PM
Lolwut?
LordChimp @ May 11th 2009 11:18PM
This is the next word to be added to the dictionary
Rentaro @ May 11th 2009 11:07PM
Shakespeare? Didn't he made a word up every 2 sentence?
Hopper @ May 11th 2009 11:11PM
Didn't you just mess up every other word in that sentence?
Rentaro @ May 11th 2009 11:14PM
I'll admit I messed up the grammar on the latter part of my post. But my point remains :)
rTwelve @ May 11th 2009 11:27PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_influence#Vocabulary
The image for this post is hilariously ironic.
Rei1983 @ May 11th 2009 11:13PM
Considering that I can't read more than two Joystiq articles in a row without a typo, I have a hard time with your disdain for the word 'noob'.
ripslymemc @ May 11th 2009 11:18PM
LOL!
he's right, that seems to be the problem with most of today's blogs...
but hey, it's free!
Hopper @ May 11th 2009 11:15PM
I'm sorry, that was rude. I hate grammar cops. I will now go into my backyard and grab onto the electric dog-fence.
XGM @ May 11th 2009 11:17PM
Cmon noobs, RTV and show how much we pwn.
JerJer @ May 11th 2009 11:18PM
http://www.shodor.org/~isinclair/special
Shmil @ May 11th 2009 11:20PM
my spoon is too big
THE Ezio Auditore de Firenze (PSN slycooper_rocker) @ May 11th 2009 11:22PM
spoonman, come together with your hands, save me...
Avatar @ May 11th 2009 11:40PM
I am a banana!
Shmil @ May 11th 2009 11:47PM
My anus is bleeding
Markez @ May 11th 2009 11:55PM
noob
THE Ezio Auditore de Firenze (PSN slycooper_rocker) @ May 11th 2009 11:18PM
if shakespeare had xbox live as a child, who knows how bad the world would be now...
THE Ezio Auditore de Firenze (PSN slycooper_rocker) @ May 11th 2009 11:21PM
the beginning of the 1996 romeo and juliet remake with leonardo dicaprio is a good idea of what to expect if that happened. that movie was WACKY. i still like it though haha.
cknblade @ May 11th 2009 11:34PM
"Give me my long sword, ho!"
*Pulls down M4 carbine*
What a movie.
THE Ezio Auditore de Firenze (PSN slycooper_rocker) @ May 11th 2009 11:50PM
that was a MAG-7 shotgun haha.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAG-7
look at the part that says 'Used In Movies'
cknblade @ May 12th 2009 12:21AM
You, sir, are correct. Either way, modernizing the plot of a Shakespearean play by replacing a sword with a gun with "longsword" etched into it is worthy of sarcastic praise.
Hopper @ May 11th 2009 11:18PM
I'm sorry, that was rude. I hate grammar cops. I will now go into my backyard and grab onto the electric dog-fence.
Shmil @ May 11th 2009 11:20PM
if do'h and truthiness can be words then so can noob
Markez @ May 11th 2009 11:21PM
So with the passage of time, apparently the 'no slang' rule in Scrabble becomes moot, as anything working its way into generally accepted engrish will officially become a word at some point; hell even d'oh is in the dictionary.
Highly recommend Word Wars available on watch instantly from Netflix.
ExMcCloud @ May 11th 2009 11:22PM
Wow? Gamers are making an impact what has the world come to? lol
Rob Accomando @ May 11th 2009 11:25PM
Why do these words need to be in a dictionary? Are they going to add all the "xxors" words or "Shizzle" words??
/rollseyes
Premature ejaculation man @ May 12th 2009 3:24AM
Forshizzlexxors they will!
No Kills @ May 11th 2009 11:28PM
Those english men just got pwned by the word noob. Get wrecked :]
cmonkey @ May 11th 2009 11:31PM
*sigh*
English is not French. There is no governing body that can officially declare a word a word, let alone exactly the millionth word.
BlaqueBeird @ May 11th 2009 11:42PM
They just did.
BigFat @ May 12th 2009 12:16AM
My lawyers are on there way as we speak
tung lashor @ May 12th 2009 5:22AM
He said "officially" and he's right - there is no "official" definition of the English language. Just because you write a dictionary doesn't make what you say official. Some other languages (such as French) are regulated in this way.
Pronouncements like this about controversial new additions to a dictionary or "the millionth word" are just publicity stunts on behalf of the publishers.
Rhamsey @ May 11th 2009 11:34PM
so that when people are called noobs they can look it up in a giant book? google can always help.
anyway, its not a big deal that noob could be brought in, after all, we create words and their meaning, not the other way around, unlike what some anti gay marriage people may say.
-note, not all views, just one of the arguments that the word marriage means between a man and a women.
Anticrawl @ May 11th 2009 11:48PM
Well I'm not against gay marriage in the US, everyone has the right to get all the economical benefits of straight people but if the definition in the english language is that marriage is between a man and woman why are people trying so hard to change it's meaning? Just make up another word for it, then everyone is happy. There is a word for sex between two men, two women and two people of the opposite sex so why wouldn't it be the same?
Anyway yeah whatever I don't really care haha.
sonicspike41 @ May 12th 2009 12:29AM
Anticrawl, it isn't just about picking any word for the meaning of two same-sex people getting together. Marriage is a very legal term, and as such using another word wouldn't allow for all the same legal benefits and other rights that the word marriage has attached to it.
If two same-sex people get married we all know what rights they get, but if they get "gayriaged" or something similar, we have no idea what rights that would grant them. Not to mention giving them a separate name for the same action that a straight couple performs could be considered prejudice.
Sex is universal. Gays, lesbians, and straights can all have sex. As far as I am aware there is no one single word that defines if the people doing it are gay or straight. You can say "gay sex" but that is not one word.
How any of this applies to the term "noob" is beyond me though.
Anticrawl @ May 12th 2009 12:43AM
Hah I'm not saying logically or legally it makes sense. English is far from logical. But if that is how it's defined in the English language then what's the big damn deal? So long as everyone has the same rights and economic benefits who cares what you call it.
Omega2k3 @ May 12th 2009 1:23AM
Anti, you're wrong. Look up the definition of marriage and stop being a d-bag, yo.
Robert Maynard @ May 12th 2009 3:48AM
Anti, we may as well turn the question around. What's the big deal with changing it? We can change the laws that govern our behaviour, but suddenly the way we communicate is sacrosanct? :P
Words are for communication - if one day the majority of people turn around and says "I think the word should mean this now" ..exactly who is going to stop us?
RogueFace @ May 12th 2009 7:36AM
lol @ gayriaged
Omega2k3 @ May 21st 2009 7:13PM
To clarify, I'm not against gay rights or anything, I was saying he was incorrect about marriage being strictly heterosexual by definition, because it's not.
Anticrawl @ May 11th 2009 11:40PM
Lulz needs to be on that list, not those other chump words. Why does it need to be? For the lulz of course.
Manly Mcbeefington (Mr. ESC) @ May 12th 2009 12:38AM
No dude just no. /b/ is up again and is slow as f*ck if you wan't to know it.
What's next Butthurt,Rickroll'd?
Anticrawl @ May 12th 2009 12:41AM
4chan.org has only been around since what 2003? Lulz has been around much longer than that, just because some /b/tarded forum dwellers adopted it doesn't mean I belong to their bizarre counterculture.
Anticrawl @ May 12th 2009 12:46AM
I'm quite sure in my childhood days we'd toss around the word lulz in the bbs's we had to log into via dial-up modem connection. Not sure if anyone else here can remember those days. Board games were fun.
Manly Mcbeefington (Mr. ESC) @ May 12th 2009 12:57AM
Nevermind /b/ is down again.
Seriously even before that? I don't remember seeing lulz anywhere before 4chan or something awful and I have been around since 1998.
Anticrawl @ May 12th 2009 12:59AM
Either lawlz or lulz yep, in bbs and MU's before the days browsing the internet was interesting.
Foetoid @ May 12th 2009 1:18AM
Everyone vote Anticrawl down plz k thanks. I still laugh at him being such a douche on the http://www.joystiq.com/2009/05/10/duke-nukem-forever-gameplay-surfaces-requests-we-come-get-some/ topic, telling us we're the idiots while he's the one wrong all along. LAWL, what a noob.