woot woot

The "Double-Woot" is a new non-standard multi-lingual punctuation mark that I invented recently to help society meet all it's double-wooting needs. (woot woot!!!)

The Double-Woot looks like a "W" with an umlaut underneath. It's purpose is to replace banging out all eight letters, one space and whatever number of exclamation marks one normally deems necessary when exclaiming "woot woot!!!!!" in moments of great typing-excitement. The "w" in the design represents "woot" of course but the uprights of the letter, when combined with the dots of the umlaut are also like four, stuck-together exclamation marks (this is more apparent in the "classic style"). Meanwhile the "dots" also represent the Os in "woot". I toyed with hanging a "t" off the end somewhere but the Ws and Os capture the essence of "woot" strongly enough.

I personally write "woot woot" a lot in emails. It's a word habit I picked up from my friend Sonya many years ago and it's never gone away. Typing the double woots on a keyboard is fast and easy but since I joined the 21st century and got myself a cellular device, I've found the 8 letters, 1 space, and several exclamation marks tedious and annoying (my cell phone is from 7-11 and doesn't have auto-complete). Therefore, I invented the Double-Woot. I might be the only person in the world who needs it.