Comment on pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned"

Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Apepollo11@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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).

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  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Huh, I legit thought thought thats how we got it. Never been important enough to look into it.

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