PWN!, pawn or poon? |
 Apr 25 2006, 04:29 PM
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Seriously, I don't know how one would go about pronouncing "pwn". Some people say "paaaaawn", but some say "pooooooon". Something random I was wondering about.
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Apr 25 2006, 09:28 PM
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 × Dead as Dillinger. ♥ Group: Member Posts: 1,527 Joined: Mar 2006 Member No: 384,615 |
QUOTE(My Cinderella. @ Apr 25 2006, 4:41 PM)  I usually say it as pown. Me too. It makes sense, because it comes from 'own'..
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Apr 25 2006, 10:58 PM
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 Change Gon Come Group: Member Posts: 2,286 Joined: May 2004 Member No: 18,822 |
it's pronounced own, because of a stage in WoW or some other game that the word "own" was misspelled as "pwn"
noobs. |
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| *digital.fragrance* |
Apr 25 2006, 11:00 PM
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Hmm... "pown" yep, and everyone at school says it like that... we used to say "pawn" but it morphed
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Apr 25 2006, 11:01 PM
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 HAAAAAAAA. Group: Member Posts: 4,472 Joined: Dec 2004 Member No: 75,068 |
I say "pawn".
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Apr 25 2006, 11:04 PM
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Pown. Hahah my best friend and I always say it. Pathetic, yes. Funny, yesser.
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| *StanleyThePanda* |
Apr 25 2006, 11:06 PM
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QUOTE(mipadi @ Apr 25 2006, 6:53 PM) It's "poan", because the word is derived from "own". Yeah, what michael said. |
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Apr 25 2006, 11:10 PM
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 cB Assassin Group: Official Member Posts: 10,147 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 7,672 |
I say I "pone" you.
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Apr 25 2006, 11:15 PM
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 dakishimetainoni... Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 4,322 Joined: Dec 2004 Member No: 75,318 |
I don't use either but I've heard it as pawn.
It kind of made sense to myself. I'm not an internet gamer at all but when someone "owns" you, that kind of sucks. But if they "pwn" you it's like they owned you but sold you which sucks even more because they pawned you in a pawn shop which in my mind is like a cheap, secondhand shop. |
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Apr 25 2006, 11:16 PM
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 ranDUMB Group: Member Posts: 757 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 35,833 |
i say pone/p-own
i cant spell it >.< |
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| *Girthy* |
Apr 25 2006, 11:46 PM
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QUOTE(DaToNeViEtBoI916 @ Apr 25 2006, 8:58 PM) it's pronounced own, because of a stage in WoW or some other game that the word "own" was misspelled as "pwn" noobs. Pwn was used way before WoW was even released. |
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Apr 25 2006, 11:47 PM
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 I can rot your brain ;] Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 1,160 Joined: Aug 2004 Member No: 42,261 |
I say pawn.
:o |
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Apr 26 2006, 02:00 AM
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 say maydayism. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,447 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 26,344 |
I pronounce it poan/pone/pown, just the same.
^  It's Natalie!!! (I don't think you know me...)
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Apr 26 2006, 07:54 AM
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 Dragon Ball Z ya! :D Group: Member Posts: 158 Joined: Mar 2006 Member No: 386,803 |
i believe it's supposed to be "pown" because it's an internet joke of how people want to type something quickly and make typoes. It's the same thing as the joke of !!!!1 <~~ the "1" at the end is a typo. The same thing applies to "pwn" because people want to say "own!" and accidently type the p instead of the o. ^_^
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Apr 26 2006, 08:10 AM
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 yan lin♥ Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 14,129 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 13,627 |
QUOTE(mipadi @ Apr 26 2006, 6:53 AM) It's "poan", because the word is derived from "own". (There are a lot of Warcraft III players who pronounce it "pawn", though, because in the DOTA mod for War3, when one player kills another player's hero, the player is said to have "pawned" the other player's head for gold.) That's what I thought.  Since the word "pwn" does originate from "own" therefore, making it "p-own"
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Apr 26 2006, 09:59 AM
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cB Assassin Group: Official Member Posts: 10,147 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 7,672 |
QUOTE(NatiMarie @ Apr 26 2006, 12:47 AM) I say pawn. :o OMG IT'S YOU! |
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Apr 26 2006, 12:56 PM
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 wut wut in the butt? Group: Human Posts: 2,108 Joined: Sep 2005 Member No: 227,723 |
pown, pone, p-own
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Apr 26 2006, 02:35 PM
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 Kris is getting bonified. Group: Member Posts: 3,172 Joined: Nov 2004 Member No: 67,366 |
I say 'pawn,' but others say 'pone.' Never have I heard someone say 'poon.'
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Apr 26 2006, 02:46 PM
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PWN!
All the way! |
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Apr 26 2006, 05:38 PM
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 delicious. Group: Member Posts: 163 Joined: Jan 2006 Member No: 349,989 |
@andie: omglawlawlawlawljeff XDDD
Pone/pown/poan o: |
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Apr 26 2006, 05:42 PM
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I've always been pronouncing it as "pawn" so it'll sounds weird if I start saying "pown".
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Apr 26 2006, 05:46 PM
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 cb² Group: Member Posts: 115 Joined: Apr 2006 Member No: 393,653 |
Pah Own
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Apr 26 2006, 05:48 PM
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QUOTE(sarcastic biscuit @ Apr 26 2006, 6:38 PM) @andie: omglawlawlawlawljeff XDDD Pone/pown/poan o: Did you say... LAWL?!!? Yeah, this came after I talked to Jeff for a while. 
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Apr 26 2006, 06:07 PM
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 Diana =] Group: Member Posts: 1,318 Joined: Jul 2005 Member No: 174,147 |
I say pown
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Apr 26 2006, 06:49 PM
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 Hello My Name Is INSERT HERE Group: Member Posts: 1,372 Joined: Apr 2006 Member No: 394,903 |
pawn
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Apr 26 2006, 08:00 PM
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Change Gon Come Group: Member Posts: 2,286 Joined: May 2004 Member No: 18,822 |
QUOTE(Girthy @ Apr 25 2006, 9:46 PM) Pwn was used way before WoW was even released. yeah, i just can't think of the game that started it... |
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