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How do you Pronounce "pwned"?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by trimbletown, Jul 2, 2010.

  1. awesomebros

    awesomebros Well-Known Member

    It's POWN. :'(
     
  2. Fredbox

    Fredbox Well-Known Member

    Well, you'd have to go to your local hardware store, find something of the right length, get a couple of brackets (not this kind!) to go on each end and some e-screws.
    Unless you meant poll...
    Anyway, enough pedantry, the word "pwned" is not pronounced, seeing as it's a purely text based word. However, if I had to pronounce it, if for example I was quoting (what someone said on the internet) in real life, then it would be to mock the person who said it, so I'd need to be clear that it wasn't simply the word "owned". So I would say it exactly how it's spelt. Pwned.
    The end...
     
  3. trimbletown

    trimbletown Well-Known Member

    So you'd say it like "pwend" or something?
     
  4. awesomebros

    awesomebros Well-Known Member

    You have no real social life at all...
     
  5. yoshi2889

    yoshi2889 Well-Known Member

    You do? That's big news.
     
  6. Fredbox

    Fredbox Well-Known Member

    No, I'd say pwned.
    No, I just have a lot of pedantry to spare and I hate idiots who use stupid internet memes in real life.
     
  7. GoldenTalesGeek

    GoldenTalesGeek Well-Known Member

    You're my new best friend. I mean it. :)
     
  8. awesomebros

    awesomebros Well-Known Member

    Yes, but this shit happens all the time when you're in middle school. Everyone who says it pronounces it the same way.
     
  9. trimbletown

    trimbletown Well-Known Member

    Pwned isnt a meme. Its just net slang.
     
  10. ace1o1

    ace1o1 Well-Known Member

    And people who say it in real life aren't the best people to be with.
    They are annoying to me and I just hold my breath and hope they learn how stupid they sound saying internet made up words in real life...

    That ruins people for me.
    Once they say it in real life, I don't like them anymore.
     
  11. awesomebros

    awesomebros Well-Known Member

    What if you're on a soccer team full of white boys?
     
  12. trimbletown

    trimbletown Well-Known Member

    What you need to understand is that the internet has become like a culture. People of the internet have their own phrases and references because thats what makes the internet great. I wouldn't dis people for saying dis.
     
  13. ace1o1

    ace1o1 Well-Known Member

    1. I hate American Soccer.
    2. I would never play American Soccer.
    3. I don't like the word at all. Even from little kids still growing balls.

    What people need to understand is that the internet should not have an effect on our language.
    I don't need to understand anything else than the destruction of our language.
    Plus I don't want to learn all of the slang that's around these days...too much and I like the old-school slang anyways.
     
  14. Fredbox

    Fredbox Well-Known Member

    I have two new friends!
     
  15. ace1o1

    ace1o1 Well-Known Member

    Nice! ;D
     
  16. trimbletown

    trimbletown Well-Known Member

    Why not? Our language is influenced by many things so why not add the internet...BOIIIII!
     
  17. awesomebros

    awesomebros Well-Known Member

    Isn't "american soccer" simply just "football"? Which is played all around the world if you noticed.
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  18. trimbletown

    trimbletown Well-Known Member

    AHHH! VUVUZELA! KILL IT! KIIIILLL IIIIT!!!!
     
  19. mds64

    mds64 Well-Known Member

    Pwned to me is "pawned" as in the chess piece.

    That works, so does owned and ownage.

    "Powned" sounds stupid.
     
  20. awesomebros

    awesomebros Well-Known Member

    Pawned sounds just as stupid. Why isn't it pewned, or puwned, or piwned?

    Because it originates from owned.