On the WordPress login page I find something described as a “hawt post”.
Does anyone know what “hawt” means?
It doesn’t appear in my dictionary, so it doesn’t appear to be an English word.
A Google search for “hawt” brings up a porn site.
Does that mean that these “hawt” posts are related to porn? Why does WordPress see the need to highlight porn posts on the login page?
A link to the online dictionary suggests:
| HAWT | Have/Having A Wonderful Time |
| HAWT | Horizontal-Axis Wind Turbine |
7 Comments
4 November 2007 at 8:34 am
“Hawt” is just a misspelling of the word “hot”, popular in the same circles that enjoy I Can Has Cheezburger. Hawt could be refering to something new and cutting edge.
5 November 2007 at 8:16 pm
Thanks for the info… it seems a strange misspelling, though.
7 November 2007 at 8:56 pm
It’s the same as “kewl” meaning “cool” or “dawg” meaning “dog” as in brother. Back in the day “groovy” was a hawt and kewl word…
10 November 2007 at 8:54 pm
Hi Steve, do a google search for LOLCATS – there seems to be quite a significant subculture around internet slang. In some instances it goes beyond misspelling words to adding characters (e.g. l337, read a ‘leet’ which is slang for ‘elite’).
There is a very popular Internet video show called ‘purepwnage’ (pronounced pure ‘ownage’), meaning to own someone else’s server, or computer…
I just seem to get older by the minute!
11 November 2007 at 8:30 am
Dion,
Like there was oNce a fAshIoN 4 sElf-stYlEd c00l d00ds 2 wRItE LikE tHiS?
I think I’ll spell it “hort” since it is a homonym, or perhaps, in view of the evident pawn connection, “whort”.
13 November 2007 at 2:22 am
“whort” is not defined yet.
“hort”, as well as “hawt“, of course, are, though. (I can has commaz
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by the way, speaking about porn promotion: there are two tags (porn & pornography) right below the post body that are, in fact, valid (i.e. counted by the search engines as well) live links into listings of the really “hawt” content hosted on wordpress.com.
there’s a rather interesting thread in the support forums, which is directly related to this post title.
unfortunately, that responsible for his flock, pastor from that thread, whose concerns about links in his blog are fully justified, is using a “devotion” category. it’s sad but true, he may be clueless that so many folks blogging on the wordpress.com may well be devoted into the quite a different (to his meaning) ‘matters’.
so I wonder if you kirik (as opposed to ἐκκλησία) guys have any clue where your, hijacked by the Automattic Inc., Category/Tag links that are within your posts lead your visitors off your blog to?
(the issue is, to find a similar tagged/categorized content on your blog, casual visitors, by intuition, will, certainly, click on a Category/Tag link above/below the post itself, because that’s what they were initially intended for, indeed. and they, surely, will be amused by the results of their search…
3 March 2008 at 10:06 pm
Urbandictionary.com will help you understand the meanings of words like hawt and werd