Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Powned

Is a term used in trash talk to express a shameful defeat. Deriving from the term owned as in I am so much better then you that I own you.

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  1. pwned, came about due to p and o being next to each other

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    1. yes. and it pronounced owned. many l33t purists will point out that noobs often mispronounce it as powned. -edited to rearrange words to make sense.

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    2. really? i've never heard of pwned being pronounced owned. i always thought it was purposeful to pronounce the p

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