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Smoozle

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:36 pm


I was playing CS:S (CounterStrike: Source) the other day, and someone said "pwned". I corrected him, saying "It's Owned.".

He replied, by saying: "No... idiot, it's pwned!" (< edited for grammatical and censorship issues).

(^ Note, this was after several repetitions of me telling him it was 'owned')

What is the world coming to?

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 3:49 am


I thought "pawned" was acceptable now, just "pwned" wasn't. Of course I use neither, so what do I know; however, I do know it isn't "pwned."

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 9:55 am


I used to think it was acceptable.... sweatdrop

Thanks for the heads up. I had no clue it wasn't right.
PostPosted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 1:47 pm


Strangely, from my time of playing online games, I've grown somewhat accustomed to "pwned". sweatdrop

In a lazy gamer's sense (prime example: my boyfriend, but I still love him anyways) it's alright, but if I ever see someone typing it out as "pwnd", they'll be down for a beating! evil

(In my irregularly so-called mind, if you're going to type out an unintentionally-typed out word such as "pwned", at least do it right. sweatdrop )

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 2:06 pm


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I used to think it was acceptable.... sweatdrop

Thanks for the heads up. I had no clue it wasn't right.


Yeah, I have trouble with that too, unfortunately. sad
PostPosted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 3:11 pm


Oh.
OHH.
I thought "pwnd/pwned" was supposed to abbreviate "pre-owned".
So would it be like "p-owned"?

Wait! Here it is: pwn.
[urbandictionary.com link]

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 7:01 pm


Well, I actually use the word pwnt online at times. ._. Is this correct? (Note:It is pronounced pp-nn(i)t. I can say it in real life, so I think it qualifies...>.>)
PostPosted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:46 am


Isn't pwned a typo of owned that just sort of stuck? For some reason it's not a word I have a problem with, maybe since it's sort of gamer vocabulary now...I'm much more concerned with the butchering of normal language. neutral

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 12:25 pm


Oh... yes, yes, I get it.

Thank you so much for the link, YourLovelyBear. Turns out 'pwned', 'pwnt', and others of the kind are all evolutions of 'pwn', which is a completely meaningless typo that, for some reason, gamers adopted and incorporated it into thier vocabulary.

It says- on the urban dictionary site YourLovelyBear was kind enough to direct us to- "Originally dates back to the days of WarCraft, when a map designer mispelled "Own" as "Pwn". What was originally supose to be "player has been owned." was "player has been pwned"

Fascinating. My world of words has been enlarged.
PostPosted: Fri May 15, 2009 3:56 pm


I learn something new every day.

... I always thought 'pwn' meant pound... which I guess could mean the same thing...

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