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

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Owned with a P sound in front.

  Powned.

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  • cecilkorik@piefed.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have heard people mispronounce it various other ways on purpose, ironically, as mockery, but I agree that depends on people knowing there's a correct pronunciation in the first place, which there is, as you've accurately described.

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• humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  pohned is correct.

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• A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Powned”, long o

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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes It’s just “Owned” with a “P” at the beginning. P-Owned.
    Just like you pronounce “Boned”.

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    • db2@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s what she said

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  • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Your description made me read it like “pooned” at first.

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• Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s not a word I say out loud.

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• kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  On pure pwnage they pronounced it ‘owned’

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  • khepri@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, that’s how we’d say it when actually gaming. “Total ownage” man was that fun to yell at your friends while the four of you clustered around a CRT playing Halo on a 4-way split screen and one controller was always the garbage one and mountain dew affected you like cocaine…

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• BurgerBaron@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Pronounced “owned.” 1337 speak is cringe but thems the rules.

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  • khepri@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I agree, although looks like you and I stand alone in this lol

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    • BurgerBaron@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s okay they’ve been wrong for decades, must sting.

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  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yup.

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Pwned rhymes with boned.

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• ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Poned, but occasionally pew-ned for reasons

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• dhhyfddehhfyy4673@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Considering that it began as a typo of owned, this shouldn't be hard to figure out.

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  • actionjbone@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Excuse me, this is the internet. There is nothing that can’t be made into extreme controversy.

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• l3enc@piefed.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  pwand or p-wand (pee wand)

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• Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Which brings us back to where we started:

    How exactly do you pronounce pwned?

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    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨40⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Like pwnd, which is something like pünd or /pʊnd/

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    • Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Pee-double-you-NED!

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    • Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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    • db2@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Like tomato.

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    you gotta remember most people on here are not estonian

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• FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The “G” in “gif” is the same as the “G” in “garage”

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  • heydo@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s also the same “G” in George…

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    • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Also the G in garbage.

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  • khepri@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    which “G” in garage lol.

    What a mess of a word now that I look at it. Two Gs pronounced differently, an “E” at the end that does not effect the second “A” (as in Rag vs. Rage). Like imagine trying to pronounce that word if you’ve never seen it, or spell it if you’d only heard it

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    • edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is why I prefer “car hole”

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    jaragge

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    • fulcrummed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Jarrajee

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    • cecilkorik@piefed.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sounds fancy, I only have a car-hole. :(

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  • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I was about to say that garage doesn’t have the wrong “g” for GIF, but then I realized that some people might be ending “Garage” with an actual “j” sound

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• IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  …pOWNed

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• i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  After not knowing for ages, I recently discovered it was pronounced pooned. The W is pronounced the same as in Welsh.*

  • The Welsh language, not the word “Welsh”

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  • khepri@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m def saying “pooned” from now on. I’m going to tell people it originated from Moby Dick and is short for “harpooned” 🤣🤣 Get 'Pooned ye White Whale!

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• voracitude@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  4. I’m Gerald of Nivea. Up for a game of Pwent?

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• ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Poond

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• Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Player-Owned

  P-Owned

  Powned

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  • Apepollo11@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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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    • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• dudleyflippendoodle@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Pernonin”, as in “grannies are for pernonin n00bz”

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• 0nt0p0fth3w0rld@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Puh-Win-Nuh-Ed

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