Gaming Terminology

[RGBVideo]

I've always thought that owned refers to assrape... "owned! your my *****" is something I can remember reading when playing duke3d mp way back.

STFU Joo NOOB. I R 1337 HAXXORZ, I PWNZ Joo, OH NOES!!1!!1!!1!1!eleven!!!!1!11!!!!!oneoneone

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[DrSpike]

Nice one Dry. Owned and powned have decent justifications. Pawned and pooned seem less justified.

[child of Thor]

can't we just have a poll and be done with it?

(pawn to bishop6 - ha ha your pawned)

[joncha]

We need no poll. Spike's assessment is correct.

[vovan]

Another theory suggests that "pwned" is a version of "owned", with supposed blood dripping from the "o".

Ooh, I like that one.

I'd pronounce pwned almost like the word "pound"... You know, like ['paund]. That way it sounds almost like a contraction of "Pow! Owned!"

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by DrSpike
Nice one Dry. Owned and powned have decent justifications. Pawned and pooned seem less justified.

pawned has NO justification in terms of how the leat speakers actually pronounce it - that is the point, and why its preferred. If an actual literate English speaker sees the word, she is not likely to think p is typo for o, but that the letter a has been omitted. Especially as "you are owned" is poor usage to begin with - being owned, in a society without slavery, is hardly a salient insult, and in any case it would have to be "i own you" to make sense - the passive construction 'you are owned' drives all venom from the phrase. (the logical reply is "so what? arent we all owned in some sense?")
You are pawned has this really interesting connotation of youve been sold out, sold down the river, scrapped, deemed useless and rendered over to a pawn shop. The loan will NOT be repaid, and you will be sold to some scrawny guy who cant even be bothered to buy new.

[vovan]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
Especially as "you are owned" is poor usage to begin with - being owned, in a society without slavery, is hardly a salient insult

I don't know about English, but in Russian slang, "being owned" = "being sodomized", hence it is a pretty potent insult even though no slavery is involved. I assumed the same second meaning is given to the phrase in English...

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by joncha
We need no poll. Spike's assessment is correct.

What a sensible guy Joncha is.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by vovan

Another theory suggests that "pwned" is a version of "owned", with supposed blood dripping from the "o".

Ooh, I like that one.

I'd pronounce pwned almost like the word "pound"... You know, like ['paund]. That way it sounds almost like a contraction of "Pow! Owned!"

Nope, I'm not allowing 5th possibilities at this late stage.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by vovan


I don't know about English, but in Russian slang, "being owned" = "being sodomized", hence it is a pretty potent insult even though no slavery is involved. I assumed the same second meaning is given to the phrase in English...

Ive never heard that one, but then I suppose I lead a somewhat sheltered life

[Traianvs]

In dutch powned sounds best (pronouncing it like owned, simply with a p in front of it).

In fact most of these terms sound pretty leet in dutch.
We often use em in real life. Omfg is a good one. I guess it doesn't sound right in english tho

[child of Thor]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4413155.stm

a relevant article? 'Geek Speak confuses users'

[DrSpike]

That's geek speak not leetspeak.

[child of Thor]

Is there really a difference?(apart from the 'g' and 'k' replacing the 'l' and 't')

My point was that its confusing to us regular punters - thus mine and LotM use of pawn as in chess. thats all

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by child of Thor
Is there really a difference?(apart from the 'g' and 'k' replacing the 'l' and 't')

Yes.