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Kawairashii hikari
10-03-2007, 05:18 PM
okay i've been seeing this for years, but never have a thought about it when talking with someone...

me and some of my friends...(but mostly meh...) have been dying to know what this "pwn, pwned" word means...

please don't like at this post and call me stoopid or anything, i'm not really into all that lingo and stuff...

so yah, help me out here ^_^ any info will be appreciated, for silly meh ^_^
overwatch
10-03-2007, 05:25 PM
Well wiki says this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwned
and thats probably the best answer you will find
hoshima haruna
10-03-2007, 06:33 PM
well that's a wierd word O.o
-Kitsune-
10-03-2007, 06:40 PM
Lol, actually I've been meaning to ask this question for a while as well but I recently found out from a friend without having to ask ^.^ Yeah, just read the Wikipedia thingy >.>
╬Karami Mew~Meow
10-03-2007, 06:59 PM
Nice thread xD jk My friends have been thinking what that word means too. Nice to know.
Oh, and "lingo" is my friend's word in science! (he's a weird one) XD lol
Zantetsuken
10-03-2007, 07:09 PM
PWNED = People With No Education Die
RandomActs
10-03-2007, 07:19 PM
PWNED = People With No Education Die
Wow...

Although I dont really know what it mean I say it alot....



PWND!
Manhattan_Project_2000
10-03-2007, 07:57 PM
PWNED = People With No Education Die
No it doesn't. "PWN" a neologism, and you just gave a backronym of it.

Look at your keyboard. If you have a QWERTY keyboard, you'll see that the letters "O" and "P" are right next to each other. Some bad typist long long ago hit the "P" instead of the "O" when trying to rapidly type "OWNED". His friends likely started aping his mistake, and it propagated through the internet as a meme.
Zantetsuken
10-03-2007, 08:00 PM
No it doesn't. "PWN" a neologism, and you just gave a backronym of it.

Duh. That was the joke.
Drunk_Squid
10-03-2007, 08:00 PM
It is used in the same fashion "owned" is, yep Manhattan, you hit the nail on the head. To me, it means the same thing also, although I never use it myself, I would much rather type out the word correctly. I really think the word pwned is annoying because people use it so much, whatever, I don't even say owned because once I boast about doing good in a game it tends to jinx me.
Kawairashii hikari
10-04-2007, 04:17 PM
wow, thx for the information never would have even been close to the actual meaning...lol and Karami yea i thought it would be a nice thread i knew some people out there didn't really know what it meant either, like Kitsune...who didn't even have to ask anybody...^_^
Overlord Darth Fluffles
10-04-2007, 04:23 PM
LEts give MY definition.

Pwned/Pwn is a typo of Own that like...became big for he did what I do when I make typos...make them into something. So NOW we all say PWNED, or PWN.


BUT...the BEST is...


OHWNED
Buruku
10-04-2007, 04:30 PM
Another question:

Do you pronounce it Pawned? or Powned?

People who were around when it first started tell me it was always "pawned" but that retards changed it to "powned."

??
Overlord Darth Fluffles
10-04-2007, 04:33 PM
I say it's pronounced Powned. Pawned sounds dumb as hell.
Climaximus
10-04-2007, 05:03 PM
Yeah, and powned doesn't sound stupid at all :rolleyes:
doesn't matter how you pronounce it, it sounds stupid either way
Manhattan_Project_2000
10-04-2007, 06:40 PM
Another question:

Do you pronounce it Pawned? or Powned?

People who were around when it first started tell me it was always "pawned" but that retards changed it to "powned."

??

Pawned. What can I say, I'm a classic sort of guy.
Masali
10-04-2007, 06:48 PM
I always said it as "powned" since...well, it's a typo of "Owned" so I figured it was appropriate.
Acnologia
10-04-2007, 07:03 PM
It means owned I think.
I<3ShellShock
10-04-2007, 07:08 PM
It's like a word for own, at first i thought it was a noob way of saying "pawned." But, okay...
Khanxay
10-05-2007, 09:04 AM
It's a typo of "owned" so I pronouce it "owned."
dream magician
10-05-2007, 09:09 AM
that's a new word for my dictionary.
OminousCloud
10-06-2007, 01:26 AM
Hmm "pawned" for me has a slightly different origin, the pawns go first and justly so, get completely annihilated. Thus when I've just wiped the floor with someone, I'd say "pawned". I don't particularly use "owned" much.
Wio
10-06-2007, 01:37 AM
Pawning is different form owning. Pawning is when you sell something that you owned at some point in time to a pawnshop. If you say pawn, expect a pawnshop to be involved.