Let’s get mad like the gif days.
Poownd obviously
Like this pure pwnage
Shameful to not link the original series, but I fully agree, it’s definitely pronounced “owned”, and anyone who says otherwise is a massive noob
Pwned rhymes with boned.
- I’m Gerald of Nivea. Up for a game of Pwent?
Player-Owned
P-Owned
Powned
Just for the benefit of anyone who doesn’t know, this is not the actual etymology.
It just started as a misspelling of “owned” (with p and o being next to each other on the keyboard).
Huh, I legit thought thought thats how we got it. Never been important enough to look into it.
Correct, which is why it should be pronounced just like the word that was meant to be typed, only replacing the “o” with a “p” sound. It wasn’t that hard to figure out when it became a thing, people just like word drama.
That’s true, but I would argue that the player owned definition of it came so quickly on the heels of the typo that both could count as valid, with the caveat that the first usage being a typo would have to be considered a mistake, rather than the coining of the slang term itself.
Which is stretching things a bit, but still fun to think about.
I say pwned, but I think pwned is also an acceptable pronunciation. But if you say it like pwned, you’re dead to me.
pawned, as “pawn” from “pawn shop”, and “ned” same as the name
I say “pownt”.
That’s not a word I say out loud.
Puh-Win-Nuh-Ed
P-you-nd - cus it’s fun to say
Pronounced “owned.” 1337 speak is cringe but thems the rules.
Yup.
Correct. Written as pwned, pronounced “owned”
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I agree, although looks like you and I stand pretty much alone in this among all these “hack-zors” lol
It’s okay they’ve been wrong for decades, must sting.
Who pronounces pwned
NERDS!
I bet you pronounce gif wrong, too.
“Powned”, long o
Your description made me read it like “pooned” at first.
Yes It’s just “Owned” with a “P” at the beginning. P-Owned.
Same way you pronounce “Boned”.That’s what she said
As it’s written. Pwned. No need to stick an extra “o” or “a” or any other vowel in between.
It says “pwned”, so “pwned” it is.
Which brings us back to where we started:
How exactly do you pronounce pwned?
Like pwnd, which is something like pünd or /pʊnd/
Pee-double-you-NED!
Like tomato.
I sometimes see people saying “pronounce it like it’s the name of a Greek philosopher” or “pronounce it as if it was Spanish”.
There’s a “p”, a “w”, an “n”, an “e” and a “d”. Say those in a row. “As if it was Spanish”, to make sure that e is really e and not i.
PuWoNed?
Drop the u and o away from between and you’ve got it :)
This guy!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
pwnedcles
you gotta remember most people on here are not estonian so you gotta make it easy for the folks who need to insert extra letters just to not do a diphthong
