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post #1 of 17
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Hope I don't bore anybody with this, but what the heck does PWNED! mean? I mean I think I get it, but I don't GET it. Where did it come from? Was it just a typo that became self aware and infected the net? Or is it really just some cool lingo that I missed out on? I lean more towards the infection thing because whenever I see it I get a little twitchy. I think I have a higher amount of the antibodies to fight it off in my system, and the twitching is just them doing their thing and trying to keep me healthy.

My posts tend to have lots of typos, and I try to fix them when I see them, I miss letters, join words together, spell stuff wrong, but I try not to come off too goofy. This pwned stuff seems self induced though. Oh well, maybe I'm just not as cool as I though I was, and I'm pretty sure I wasn't the coolest guy to begin with. I'm ok though.

How is it pronounced? Do you just say "owned" or is is "pew-ned" If it's pew-ned then I'm really confused.

I just want some insight, and I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything...
post #2 of 17


My roommate and I prounounce it "Pawn-three'd" because we always see it spelled like "pwn3d" because all those 'leet' types like to spell it that way :-P
post #3 of 17
As far as I can tell, it's just one of those new "l33t" speak terms that popped up on Counter Strike, Unreal, and Half Life servers. It's pronounced ~Powned~ and is just a differenet way of saying owned.
post #4 of 17
wikipedia.org is your friend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwned
post #5 of 17
Uh, what's l33t?
post #6 of 17
We repeat: Wikipedia is your friend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet
post #7 of 17
Heh heh... here's a good compendium of some common 'pwn3d' photos:

http://www.danslagle.com/interests/own3d/index.html
post #8 of 17
Thread Starter 
I've been PWN3D!!! L33tspeak and wikipedia frighren me...

It's all so interesting though.


By the way, those 'pwn3d' photos are hilarious.
post #9 of 17
Funny how such a unique word can't be pinned down to one singular origin. Pwned is such a mystery! Somebody call Discovery Channel! We need a special!
post #10 of 17
I played CS and Jedi Knight II, and when pwned began to surface in JKII, it was generally accepted as "owned" to the nth degree.

...but I like wikipedia's definition
post #11 of 17
I pwned you with easy gg I win
post #12 of 17
QQ more n00bs
post #13 of 17
Dorks
post #14 of 17
Coming soon to a CHUD column near you:

post #15 of 17
W00t D00Dz w1k1 Rulza... cough... cough...

It's like speaking Jar-Jar talk. W33sa Fr33!!!!
post #16 of 17
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Originally Posted by phoenix_214
Heh heh... here's a good compendium of some common 'pwn3d' photos:

http://www.danslagle.com/interests/own3d/index.html



Damn, that´s cute.
post #17 of 17
Quote:
Originally Posted by Randolph Carter


Damn, that´s cute.
Look, feces - awwww.
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