Daniel: yer man.. Used as an expression of astonishment and fear when you spot a zombie and get terrified by what you see the undead walking in the streets is not a pleasant discovery. May also be used as an expression of a feeling similar to the one you would get by the awesomeness, astonishment and fear you would get if you saw a zombie more usual on a daily basis.
Check out that monster truck! ZOMFG get off!!! It is also used as a device for stating the obvious. One of the hardest bloons in bloons TD battles and usually sent by an attack of a high level player. Oh No! How did he send me a ZOMG already!!! A variation of OMG. But anyone who played a lot of Starcraft back in the day knows that you "zerg" another player, or you "got zerged" by someone. This was by far the prevalent usage.
With that standard already in place it becomes really hard to invent a scenario that replaces a very specific 4 letter lower case warning with an ambiguous 4 letter upper case warning. The likelihood is not for people to hit the z instead of the shift key which would produce zoMG instead of zOMG but for people to "fatfinger" the z while hitting the shift. Personally being right handed I can vouch for the fact that when I type with my left pinky the left index finger tends to travel with it.
When I do a left shift the index finger trails down to rest on the z. I've never seen a key between the shift and z Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.
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Viewed 33k times. I have looked in a number of places, with contradictory results. ZOMG originated from the image-board 4chan. The "z" was originally a mistake while attempting to hit the shift key with the left hand, and type "OMG" The first sentence is copied verbatim from the previous and older explanation, with the "Z" changed into a "z".
Oh well. On the talk page for ZOMG , there's only this brief exchange: This entry should be amended to note that the "z" is added emphasis from the common typo committed when hitting the "shift" key. Unfortunately, although this FAQ is accurate, the fact that it has not been cited in a reliable source means that we cannot include it on Wiktionary.
Oh My God! Zebras on my Grass gaming clan Now I am utterly confused. Some of these suspiciously look like backronyms. Improve this question. Community Bot 1. Nice question. I'm not fully convinced by any of these explanations either.
But I agree, if that were the origin, the acronym should be 'zomg', or at least 'zoMG'. Martha: maybe it started out as zomg, which is an error, and became ZOMG when people liked what they saw and started using it on purpose.
Show 11 more comments. ZOMG , I just won the lottery! No one is too sure what the Z means … read on. There are a few competing explanations for zomg. One is that it begins as an imitation of key-smashing, or typing random letters and characters like exclamation points to express strong emotions e.
Another is that the Z in zomg comes from a typo, hitting the Z key instead of the neighboring shift key when intending to capitalize OMG. Yet another theory is that zomg comes from players of the computer game, StarCraft. Z omg in StarCraft was a shortening of Zerg!
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