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[Rock Hydra]

I thought I would never be caught saying "pwned" out loud, until i got to college. Now I say it a lot. 🙁

 

[ed21x]

pawned- because at least it sounds like another word in the english dictionary. The alternative (poned) sounds dumb when said.

 

[jonessoda]

say "own/owned" but add a "p" sound to the front. In IPA notation, [p??n], [p??nd], or ['p??n.??].

 

[Evadman]

owned

 

[halik]

OWNED...it comes from the underground hacker scene in the 90s. If you get a root account on a machine somewhere, you "own" that server. Or conversely the server got owned.

It got popular because people started defacing boxen with things like "Halik owns this box".. so the word would around on IRC that halik owned www.foo.com.

p0wn is own as much as pohl =pole= poll

 

[Brackis]

Pee-owned

 

[EyeMWing]

Personally, I take off the entire o sound, and insert a p - with no vowel. so it's pronounced [unintelligible noise]ned

the unintelligible noise comes out something like a grunt with a p leader and an nnnn trailer.

 

[Powermoloch]

pee-owned

p-owned

 

[Mo0o]

me and everyone I know say poned.

 

[Amplifier]

I say phoned, but the word only exists on the internet, so who cares how it sounds in real life

 

[alimoalem]

i've never heard it pronounced pawned. your friend wins, even though i think he's the loser. no one "pawns" someone; you either own them or pown them. pown = persian ownage, for the record 😉

 

[Mo0o]

looks like you lose

 

[Xyclone]

pone/poned

/thread

 

[neutralizer]

I and everyone else I know pronounce it "pawned."

 

[EGGO]

"pweened"

 

[cleanerupper]

Poh-n-arrow

 

[jai6638]

Originally posted by: Crazyfool
It's an internet term and if you speak it in real life it is pronounced owned.

It's like saying LOL around people instead of actually laughing out loud. 😉

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Pawned n00b

- JaAG

 

[Whitecloak]

poon

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: Whitecloak
poon

FTW!!

 

[Doboji]

You say it out-loud?! Geek

 

[Joemonkey]

Originally posted by: Phil

Originally posted by: Whitecloak
poon

FTW!!

I say this in vent all the time, just for laughs... "He got pooned!"

 

[purbeast0]

anyone who didn't vote "powned" is a noob, simple as that.

pwn is pronounced "poned" ... but if you actually say the word in real life, you have other issues.

 

[Pepsi90919]

remember it was originally a misspelling of 'owned', but if you just say 'owned', no implication of 'pwned' is present. you must work the P in front of it, to become literally "powned"

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: Joemonkey

Originally posted by: Phil

Originally posted by: Whitecloak
poon

FTW!!

I say this in vent all the time, just for laughs... "He got pooned!"

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