BONGO Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 right i'm up, just got in, bored, and for some reason too awake to even try to sleep. And a bit too wobbly eyed to try aswell as i'm scared of waking up with that 'i'm gonna be sick' feeling. so.... i've been reading this place and seen in the trials game thread that someone typed 'pwned'i've seen this for f**king ages, years infact, and i've never known what the f**k it means and why it's got a P at the start of it?!?!?!?!?someone tell me please... i f**king HATE it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMack Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 It's a misspelling of "owned" which is a popular phrase in online gaming, it means to beat, or defeat someone. As in, "you got owned". As o and p are next to each other people often hit "pwned" when they were typing fast.There you have it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BONGO Posted January 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 i know owned, which makes sense. So people actually PWN people on purpose??? instead of it actually being a spelling mistake?!wankers... lpl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMack Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 Yeah people misspell it on purpose now because it's a cool popular phrase.Rofl Harris. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BONGO Posted January 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 lmap, rpfl, lpl, omsl. hmmmmm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Anscombe Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 Pwnage! lol also have the spinny room affect Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIG Drew Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 As far as I am aware it means player owned...People could have just hit P instead of O though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaRtZ Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 As far as I am aware it means player owned...People could have just hit P instead of O though?I always thought it was because its properly spelt _pwned meaning, the underscore "cuts the tail off" like a knifeGay though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 That is truely rediculous. But thanks for asking bongo, i've been meaning to for ages. I'l be honest I really expected something more exciting than that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurtisRider Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 hmm, i thought it was Pawned, thought it had something to do with chess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadManMike Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 It's like "the win" - people started spelling it wrong and decided to stick with it... J00 g0t Pwn3d!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haz Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 Came from the days of multiplayer gaming before VoIP or voice chat in games, when you didnt really hav time to type, a lot of people jsut mashed thier fist across the keyboard as fast as they could, so long as it got the message across. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pwned Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendrix Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 I always thought it was something to do with porn... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
011001000110010101110010 Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 the aswell...porned, powned, pwnd boring Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revolver Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 whats more annoying is if people say it in real lifepwnedand pronounce it pownedwhich is cpmoletely senseless, seeing as hpw owned is shorter to sayrpfl harris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eskimo Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 n00b Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Scarlet Posted January 13, 2008 Report Share Posted January 13, 2008 (edited) Almost like when people say "the", it can create the typo "t e h" (Trials forum changes it back to "The") when typed fast, so some people do it on purpose.The other one is when people end a statment with several exclamation marks, like; "oh my god he got pwned!!!!!1", again a typo from letting go of the shift key before the "1" key creates the "1" on the end.Which is why people then decide to do this; "oh my god he got pwned!!!!1one", the "one" on the end is basically a mickey take of how someone would be silly enough to write a "1" instead of an exclamation mark. Edited January 13, 2008 by Fugley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam-Griffin Posted January 13, 2008 Report Share Posted January 13, 2008 (edited) TheWo :ow it works. Edited January 13, 2008 by Adam-Griffin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_Fel Posted January 13, 2008 Report Share Posted January 13, 2008 TheWo :ow it works.Prawns the worst for typing t e h ha ha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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