Curious About This Word...

GornGorn Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8148Members
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People used to use the word "Owned", and now I see "Pwnd" or "Pwned". I figure it means the same thing but whats up with the P? Just curious about the how this word came about <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • TyphonTyphon Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 1899Members
    If you look at your keyboard, p is right next to o, so it probably started out as a typo. Seeing as it was even more noobish to mistype a noobish word, pwned is even more stupid than owned. But they mean the same thing. say owned if you want to demonstrate your dominance over another player, but use pwned if you want to make yourself look like an idiot at the same time.
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  • GornGorn Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8148Members
    Lol. I never would have guessed it was that simple. After hours of play today, I never saw Owned, only lots of Pwned. Apparantly l33t speak has suffered a genetic mutation and "evolved" <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • UmbrallaUmbralla Join Date: 2002-11-10 Member: 7991Members
    It is certainly not a typo! It may have started out as one, but now hte word pwned is jsut as accepted as owned. Don't ask me why.
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  • BridgerBridger Join Date: 2002-10-30 Member: 1761Members
    i use the word pwned to make fun of the people who like to brag about how much they own.
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  • BananBanan Join Date: 2002-02-22 Member: 235Members
    Yeah if you're going to say you own you never say: "Wow, I really own you guys, i'm alot better" That just pisses people off, pretend you are just messing around and say: "w00t I pwnz j00 4ll! I r 1337!"
    People will just laugh at you and accept your ownage <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • kiwakaikiwakai Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3353Members
    it's just like "I AM TEH BEST"

    it's usually on purpose nowadays
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  • FooshieFooshie Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2820Members
    i teh uberleet pwn j00 kthx
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  • WarpZoneWarpZone Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 6264Members
    edited November 2002
    Whenever I try to type 1337, I always have to stop and think about how to misspell the words. Ironic, considering all the abreviations like "b4" and "ne1" and stuff were originally desigend to make typing go faster in online games. =/

    First time I saw Pwned, I replied back "You what...? Pawned me? Prawned me?" <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • LegionnairedLegionnaired Join Date: 2002-04-30 Member: 552Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--WarpZone+Nov 12 2002, 11:59 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (WarpZone @ Nov 12 2002, 11:59 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->First time I saw Pwned, I replied back "You what...? Prawned me?" <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Holy crap... that's going in my profile....
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  • FunkTheMonkFunkTheMonk Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4933Members
    No no no no no, pwned isnt owned spelt differently! pwned is a shorter way of saying phoned. So when someone says 'I pwned j00!' it means that they picked up the telephone and gave ya a bell. However one day a n00b saw this on a game and mistook it for 'owned' and then decided to be an idiot and spread it around.
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  • LongtoothLongtooth Join Date: 2002-07-02 Member: 863Members
    I have been gaming since before 1337 came about, it was quite fun to watch it go from elite to leet to l33t to 1337, each time l33t evolves it becomes shorter and uses less letters and more numbers. Eventaully it is going to revert to decimal code.
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  • zodazoda Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 7175Members
    it's just a typo that has been done so many time's it is now excepted lol
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  • Sgt_XSgt_X Join Date: 2002-03-01 Member: 261Members
    I always thought of it as pawned. As in a pawn shop, that's what it translates into in my head. Never cared about the meaning and I don't use it in my speech\writing. But then I suffer the curse of uber skimming. One book i read had this corp called Amspace but the first time I read it I mistoke it for Armspace and for the whole book it became Armspace.
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  • InjuryInjury Mahou Shoujo Join Date: 2002-11-10 Member: 7992Banned
    I've always wondered about this "pwned" thing, but approached it tentatively due to the fact of its overwhelming popularity in every game now it seems. How much harder is it to type "owned" anyways?
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  • InsaneInsane Anomaly Join Date: 2002-05-13 Member: 605Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, NS2 Map Tester, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts, Future Perfect Developer
    ...

    Isn't it a abbreviation of pw33ned?
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  • InjuryInjury Mahou Shoujo Join Date: 2002-11-10 Member: 7992Banned
    ...Pw33ned? Uh, what?

    I'm afraid my leetspeak skills are a bit lacking.
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  • MercenaryForHireMercenaryForHire Join Date: 2002-10-03 Member: 1410Members
    0wned (v) - To dominate, eg "Man, I just 0wned you!"
    pwned (v) - A lower-class, vulgar spelling of "0wned" used by those attempting to be skilled, eg "OMG D00D I PWNED J00!!!!!!!!11"
    q0wned (v) - A brutal domination, a much more severe form of "0wned", eg "Man, five Skulk kills in a row! I just q0wned you!"

    Then there's always the substitutions; eg "0wnos" - and my personal favourite - "Al Cap0wned!"

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    - M4H
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  • WindelkronWindelkron Join Date: 2002-04-11 Member: 419Members
    edited November 2002
    Started out as Own, and people kept misspelling it as Pwn. I guess gamers needed something to define themselves as a bloc, and they chose intentional misspelling of words. This can also be noted by the liberal use of "Teh" instead of "The." (Although Teh-ing has mostly stopped recently.)

    HAHA PWNED!

    oh, about pw33ned: this is taking the whole thing a step farther, <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->


    Now for the real question: How do you pronounce "n00b?" 'Newb' or 'Newbie?"
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  • BouncyBouncy Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7623Members
    i do that too sgtX hahah so funny! *Feels better that there are other idiots in the world*
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  • ctxctx Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4592Members
    P resembles O except it has a little line coming down from the left.
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  • ireValireVal Join Date: 2002-09-30 Member: 1390Members
    ok guys, i can understand how pwned came around, but how the hell did TURRENT get here, its impossible for that to be a typo considering that all the letters of 'turret' are on the top row and the 'N' key is on the bottom
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  • ireValireVal Join Date: 2002-09-30 Member: 1390Members
    edited November 2002
    ok guys, i can understand how pwned came around, but how the hell did TURRENT get here, its impossible for that to be a typo considering that all the letters of 'turret' are on the top row and the 'N' key is on the bottom

    SORRY about the double post, it said i had an error so i went back and tied to post again and it did it twice
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  • TalchoTalcho Join Date: 2002-11-21 Member: 9496Members
    pwned = Power Owned
    n00b = whoever said it
    1337 = I need a drink
    lol = Tie Fighter
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  • ThalamusThalamus Join Date: 2002-11-21 Member: 9499Members
    LOL well cs being my main game and has been for years, this topic did amuse me.
    We were cursed with bloody idiots using leet speak till it finally became old fashioned and no one really uses it anymore exept children, tis interesting to see they apparently left cs for this! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
    We are currently cursed with "hax tbh" so since you guys seem about a year behind the times you,ve got that to look forward to <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> I pity you all. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

    I,m sorry saying owned to anyone in games is just as sad as saying pwned, dont fool yourself and dont think just because you made a nice kill it was ownage if it was you`d be saying it constantly but no one does because no one owns all, there is always someone better <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Now TURRET? What is peoples fixation with making up words or meanings? is this game only played by children or something? or are you on a mission to hide your shortcommings by using such pointless grammer?

    Dispite this worrying child like behaviour that has seemed to have surfaced so quickly, this game has interested me i may well have to dl and give it a go <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
    Even if some of the players on this thread sound like cs players of a year ago (i.e fad following kids)
    I oh so hope i,m wrong <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • ireValireVal Join Date: 2002-09-30 Member: 1390Members
    you dont know what a turret is?<!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • InjuryInjury Mahou Shoujo Join Date: 2002-11-10 Member: 7992Banned
    edited November 2002
    Now, I may be incorrect but I used to play Subspace (which is still played and is now called Continuum). I believe the word TURRENT originated from there as you could turret onto someone else by using the F5 key. Turrent! I haven't heard that in awhile, and I've only seen it typed on Subspace and its descendant Infantry (which is currently owned by Sony and pay to play).

    I think a P is more closely related to a D rather than an O. Thoughts? Theories? (On the P) <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

    [Edit]P.S. Nothing beats a JT on a DB with AR, DR and GL.
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  • TheGlowTheGlow Join Date: 2002-11-22 Member: 9650Members
    AHhah "gave ya a bell"
    That just sounds funny as hell. And yea, I remember when hax0r started.
    But i remember something similar but not officially hax0r waaaay back in like 98 on xband. and if you know what that is, you need to shoot yourself.
    1337 #4><0/2'/. /20><0/2 7#3 #4ü$.
    Good, the umlauts the closest to a letter, but it is über.
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  • WarfareWarfare Join Date: 2002-10-29 Member: 1697Members
    edited November 2002
    Keep your bragging to yourself and shut up instead ^-^

    Pwn just makes me furious and want to put that user so much on ignore... Any numberic language makes me feel like that. Especially if they type "You have no life you waste time at your computer" in numberic languages ^-^ Who's ever going to even translate those words?
    Meh... stick to ye olde english, folks. Make me happy ^-^


    Edit: Erm... ok... they obscented happy?
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  • crackyflipidecrackyflipide Join Date: 2002-11-14 Member: 8579Members
    Well yeah, im making a better version of 1337

    ..-._.-..'",>4)} .-. i664
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  • SilentHunterSilentHunter Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9450Members
    Believe it or not it started in MMORPG's, pwned.
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