w00t

[miekec]

How do you explain what the word "w00t" is? To a bunch of parents of 5-year-olds. And I'm not even touching the fact that this was at a princess tea party and there were at least 9 of these girls running loose. In (mostly) pink and fluffy and sparkly outfits, with crowns and wands and wings and glitter nailpolish and glitter in their hair and shiny lips. And a big table with purple taffeta and pink tulle and porcelain teacups and sparkly hears and stars and, and, and...
But I digress.
How we got there, I may have forgotten in the shocked aftermath. I asked if they new what the word of the year (2007) was. And then found blank looks when I told them it was w00t. Yes, with two zeros, not o's. Trying to explain a whole generation of kids ingrained with computers and terminology. Let alone 1337. I left it at "young kids" and "different generation" and fun and pesky. And that it meant something like wow, yay, woohoo, hurray. Took a deep breath. Trying to really quickly forget this ever happened.

Comments

[in-parentheses.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I had a similar experience trying to explain 1337speak to a co-worker last weekend -- a coworker who is only in her mid-to-late thirties! So I think it's more about how much time you spend in the geekier, hipper parts of the internet.