Let’s get mad like the gif days.
Pwned rhymes with boned.
pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned"
Submitted 4 months ago by khepri@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee 4 months 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.
lime@feddit.nu 4 months ago
you gotta remember most people on here are not estonian
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Which brings us back to where we started:
How exactly do you pronounce pwned?
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Like pwnd, which is something like pünd or /pʊnd/
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Pee-double-you-NED!
Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee 4 months 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.
db2@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Like tomato.
Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Player-Owned
P-Owned
Powned
Apepollo11@lemmy.world 4 months 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).
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 months 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.
Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Huh, I legit thought thought thats how we got it. Never been important enough to look into it.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 months 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.
IWW4@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
…pOWNed
FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
The “G” in “gif” is the same as the “G” in “garage”
khepri@lemmy.world 4 months 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
emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
I mean as long as you knew the word age you’d probably pronounce it in a more stilted way, but similar to british people. Gare - age. American english is just weird because Gare becomes Gurr and age becomes odge.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is why I prefer “car hole”
otp@sh.itjust.works 4 months 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
lime@feddit.nu 4 months ago
jaragge
fulcrummed@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Jarrajee
cecilkorik@piefed.ca 4 months ago
Sounds fancy, I only have a car-hole. :(
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 4 months ago
“Powned”, long o
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Your description made me read it like “pooned” at first.
Steve@communick.news 4 months ago
Yes It’s just “Owned” with a “P” at the beginning. P-Owned.
Just like you pronounce “Boned”.TheDoozer@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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db2@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s what she said
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 months ago
Owned with a P sound in front.
Powned.
cecilkorik@piefed.ca 4 months 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.